Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...State associations are united into an Inter-state Oratorical Association. The latter has existed for ten years and has been productive of much good. Such an institution is needed even more in the East than in the West, where more attention is given to oratory in the regular college curriculum...
...changes in the curriculum of freshman year have it seems, been a great success so far. There has been no great or unexpected rush either into or from any one department. About sixty men have dropped their Latin, about eighty their Greek, and about a hundred their mathematics. And these men are very evenly distributed, the two history courses open to them receiving the greatest number-about eighty each. This is all very pleasant, so far; history is a subject well suited to freshman year, and the instructors in Latin, Greek and Mathematics probably congratulate themselves on having...
...words concerning it would not be without interest especially to those who are as yet unacquainted with our college institutions. The Union was formed in 1880. Its object was the discussion of the political and social questions of the day. There was at this time in the college curriculum a course essentially devoted to this same purpose, but the Faculty, thinking that its place was now filled, withdrew it from the electives. So great, however, was the interest aroused in Parliamentary matters, it was thought best last year to revive it. A knowledge of Parliamentary roles, an ability to express...
...ways. But we at Harvard have not only many ways, but the way, and that is the practice of debate. The importance of practice in debate as a factor of success to a lawyer is so great that no one who is studying for that profession should consider his curriculum of study complete without arrangements for this practice. The Union is the chief means of obtaining this exercise here, and it ought to be attended by many more than it is. All of the speaking that a lawyer has to do is directly of the nature of that which constitutes...
...curriculum of study while compulsory is equal to any which could be pursued by any one student at Harvard, and the teaching is of an exceptionally high standard. Many pretty college stories are told by the students to their visitors and none more often than that one referring to the great popularity of the present president. It was once asked if Wellesley was denominational. Yes, was the answer, the students are Roman Catholics. What, Roman Catholics? Yes, they worship the virgin...