Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...everywhere as a strenuous advocate of the modern theory of education which recognizes the fact that the usefulness of a knowledge of the living languages is of more value than the superior discipline which, it is claimed, the classics give; and it has been through his influence that the curriculum of the freshman year has been so changed as to make French or German practically the only prescribed study. And yet we do not hesitate to say that Harvard is weakest where it should be strongest, that is in German. The trouble lies not perhaps with the individual instructors...
...cried, "Ah, the Eleven!" He told us that the foot-ball interests of Tufts were "screaming," as he said, and that they bade fair to swallow up the other sports in the same manner as they had been themselves swallowed at our own college. Our friend spoke of the curriculum of Tufts as excellent, and the teaching thorough. He did not say, however, that the students ate in the chapel or that some of the professors roomed in the gymnasium. He felt sorry for us that we were not in Tufts, and pointed out the excellencies of his Alma Mater...
...entertainment, the new gymnasium will be open to inspection. This is already partially furnished, under the direction of Dr. Sargent of Cambridge, whose system is to be carried out by Miss Ransom, a graduate of his class for teachers. The physical exercises will form a part of the regular curriculum, being arranged for each pupil by measurement and tests of strength, and required as much as attendance at recitations...
...prominent periodical, in nothing the changes made this year in our curriculum, gives utterance to the following commendatory words: "The prescribed studies for the freshman year are hereafter to be rhetoric and English composition, German or French, physics and chemistry. The list of electives is large, and is headed by Latin, Greek and mathematics. Latin and Greek are still among the requirements for entrance, but after admission they are to be pursued only in case the student chooses to do so. A generation ago, the ordinary college course consisted of Latin, Greek and mathematics almost exclusively, with the addition...
...themselves of this instruction unless they were fortunate enough to have made a study of this science before they entered college. But we know that there was no such qualification for entrance, and so the fitting schools have neglected it. To be sure when Physics 1 was in the curriculum, one-third of that course was devoted to astronomy, but in order to gain even this slight knowledge of the subject, one was obliged to take a course of Optics and Acoustics. What we think is needed here are into courses in Technical Astronomu, but a popular course, with little...