Word: curriculum
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There are only two American universities which include music in their regular curriculum for the bachelor's degree; they are Harvard and the University of Michigan. But music has always been a traditional part of a liberal education. It was one of the socalled "seven arts" of the mediaeval universities; and at Oxford and Cambridge it has been continued uninterruptedly to this day, among the regular courses of instruction. There the degrees of Bachelor of Music and Doctor of Music, based on theoretical work and actual competition required from candidates, stand on an equal footing with the degrees in Arts...
...greater number of public lectures by men eminent as specialists or as writers, than at present. The opportunities offered at Johns Hopkins in this respect are far superior to those at Harvard, while at Cornell the instruction given by nonresident lecturers, is a prominent feature of the college curriculum. Harvard cannot take her just position as a university till free opportunities of this sort are offered. It is true that Boston, particularly by means of the Lowell Institute, partially fills this field; but for the average student, and even for the ardent specialist at Harvard, Boston is practically inaccessible, except...
...fill the hall, while there are long periods of an attendance so slender that it is a reproach to the college. We should not consider the Union as a place of amusement, but as a source of one of the most important courses of training offered by the college curriculum. We cannot rate too high the power of properly expressing an idea in public, and a debating society is a means of education which is too often neglected...
...ENGLAND COLLEGES.- The annual convention of delegates from the college faculties of Southern New England met recently at Amherst. The subject discussed was the selection of physics and chemistry to the college curriculum: It was generally agreed that to demand any preparation in the preparatory schools in these branches inadvisable, at least for the present. Professors Trowbridge and Cook represented Harvard in the convention...
...that "such an institution exists between the colleges of six different western states" it still remains an open question whether "such an institution" is needed in the east "even more than in the west." "J. F. M." acknowledges that "more attention is given to oratory in the regular college curriculum" in the eastern colleges than in those of the west without caring to recognize the fact that the Oratorical Association among the western colleges is meant for a substitute, and a very poor substitute at that, for the instruction in elocution received at the eastern colleges. With all deference...