Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...having early come into prominence by espousing the cause of the Barous against the King. These universities have always been generously endowed, and the scholarships and fellowships of Oxford now amount to about L500,000 a year. The University of Dublin consists of but one college, Trimty, and the curriculum is similar to that of Oxford. Scotland also possesses four freak universities, St. Andrews, Glasgow, A Bergen, and Edlburgh, and is well supplied with other institutions of learning, most of which were founded in the fifteenth century. These colleges are more crossly a lined to the German system of education...
...study of English, from a lack of funds, has to be associated with the study of some other language or branch of learning. Yet In spite of these disadvantages, for the last few years the study of English has rapidly increased and now takes a front rank in the curriculum of the southern academies and colleges. A gentleman who for ten years was an instructor in English at a southern college gives his opinion as follows...
...possible to combine with these a thorough study of the ancient world? The bad results of recent attempts to accomplish this in Germany justify Professor Paulsen in denying this possibility, and consequently he does not hesitate to exclude all classical study except the elements of Latin from the curriculum of the Gymnasium. In its place he puts a broader and more detailed treatment of history in all its branches, a more thorough study of the German language and literature, an elementary course in philosophy, comprising ethics. logic, psychology, and politics. Natural science and mathematics would also gain by the proposed...
...absence of a course of instruction in the History of Political Theories forms a serious gap in the curriculum at Harvard. As has been shown by the article in these columns describing the several schools of Political Science, there is exactly such a course at Michigan University, at Columbia, and at Johns Hopkins. If one has time to read at length in the original Greek the Republic of Plato in Greek, and can take Philosophy 5, in which, among other things, Locke's theories of government are expounded, one can gain some knowledge of this subject, but only...
...well known fact that the larger the college, the more numerous its corps of instructors, the broader its curriculum, and in brief the nearer it approximates to a university, the greater becomes the estrangement between instructors and students. It is here that the smaller colleges have the advantage of us, and it is an advantage of no mean importance. Many a parent has been induced to sent his boys to colleges which in every other respect are inferior to ours, because he feels the personal influence of teachers, is of far more importance than what of mere knowledge he could...