Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ward's course on Modern Anthropology will also be continued. The great range of the subject has made these lectures necessarily general in character. The success of the course suggests that a valuable elective course on this subject might be added to the college curriculum. It would certainly be both instructive and popular...
...said that the professors of any particular college are not competent to regulate its discipline and curriculum, we answer that they are in that case unfit for their places, and that better men should be found, and better salaries paid, if necessary, to get them, and not that the government of the college should be handed over to persons burdened with other cares, and whose chief attention is given to other subjects...
...Divinity School had also an increased number of students. In its curriculum, there are at present nine courses which are accepted by the college faculty from candidates for the degree of A. B. It is a significant fact that more beneficiary money has been refunded by graduates of this department than by those of any other...
...important addition was made last fall to the curriculum of the Lawrence Scientific School. In former years there were four different four-years' courses of instruction at the Scientific School, viz., civil and topographical engineering, chemistry, geology, and biology; but last October the faculty decided to add a fifth one, electrical engineering. However, this step was taken at too late a date to permit many men to change their electives for courses in electrical engineering. The course has been arranged so as to accommodate two sets of men-one who desire to get a knowledge of the practical part...
...courses in electrical engineering added last fall to the curriculum of the Scientific School, and mentioned in another column, go far towards supplying an increasing demand among the scientific students of the University. This addition already makes our course in electricity superior to that pursued in many purely scientific schools. The present facilities, however, are inadequate for the purposes of the scientific faculty. It is firmly believed that many men would be glad to take a practical course in the workshop, especially as such a course would combine exercise with pleasure. In case this should prove true, as it undoubtedly...