Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Amherst is talking of devoting her curriculum to the classics alone. [Ex.Mr. E. L. Thayer has been elected Kr. of the Hasty Pudding Club for the next theatricals.The meet of the Shooting Club which was announced for today has been postponed until tomorrow...
...which we must all do. Although it may not be necessary to have read Beattie's essay on "Classical Education" to be a cultivated man, it is true that nothing will give culture or, indeed, education so quickly as general outside reading. Whether it be supplemented by a college curriculum or manual labor it is the reading of books upon which we must found our cultivation. "Show me his books and I will tell you the man," is so true and invariably reliable that it is strange we do not take greater thought or care about what or how much...
...maintained that a student, at the beginning of his sophomore year, is more or less incompetent to decide for himself what may be the best course for him to follow in his study, and that a prescribed curriculum embracing the necessary elements upon which to build a liberal education should be substituted in place of a too freely elective system. We do not consider it our province to answer this argument, but think it well to advise a careful consideration before a final decision is made in the choice of electives for the ensuing year...
...were entrusted forever with the absolute control of higher education within the Burgh." On the 16th of October, 1583, the magistrates of Edinburgh appointed a committee to devise the order of teaching to be kept in the college now erected. A strictly university course of study was adopted. The curriculum was divided into four sessions, and at the conclusion of the fourth the students were made magistri or masters of arts. The prescribed course differed from the mediaeval degree system in three important respects : 1. In making Greek an indispensable part of university study ; 2, in the spirit of humanism...
...others. No other change of course would be so radical a change as that advocated by the latter party. It is in itself a broader question than that of the elective system, but with the freshman year abolished, it would not directly affect the practical question of the Harvard curriculum. The agitation, we believe, can result in no other outcome than that of compromise; not however a compromise based on the extremist doctrines of President Eliot in regard to the early differentiation of studies...