Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual dinner of the Rhode Island Harvard Club will be held in Providence next Friday. President Eliot and Professor Dyer are expected to be present, and the latter will present for discussion the question of Greek in the college curriculum...
...believe I speak for all the overseers in saying this. We are not going to abandon the study of Greek in Harvard. [Loud applause.] There will be some differences of opinion as to just what place it shall take in the curriculum, but so long as large numbers of students prefer the classical training, do not fear but that the college authorities will stand by them; and more, whatever-differences of opinion there may be as to the requirements for admission to college, we shall stand on this question all Greeks together. Though there may be a Cicoro...
...full college course occupies three years, and except in especial cases, no young lady is admitted under eighteen years of age. Candidates for admission are required to pass an entrance examination and furnish a certificate of character. The curriculum embraces: modern languages, classics, mathematics, natural science, moral science, history, and vocal music. The professors of Cambridge have given their services free, and the readings, entertainment's, etc., of the university, with its musical society, are open to students...
...Yale 22. This year the preferences of the senior class are Harvard, 15; Yale, 12; all others, 11; and of the middle class, Harvard, 16; Yale, 8; all others, 11. This would seem to indicate that Phillips Andover is rapidly deserting Yale with its somewhat antiquatedor, at least, inflexible-curriculum, for the broader opportunities for study offered by Harvard. Whether or no the change is a permanent one the future will decide. The cause, though, is not so hard to determine. So far as we have been able to judge, the underlying motive which influences our students to choose Harvard...
...general superintendence would keep them up to the mark and prevent shirking. This plan, with three hours of regular work each week, would not fail to turn out a much stronger and better developed set of men at the end of every year. This addition to the regular curriculum, not being brain work, would be but a slight extra burden and might be made to fill up some of the spare hours between the regular recitations, the gymnasium sections being the same as those for the class room...