Word: curriculum
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Roanoke College, at Salem, Va., is doing a most valuable work in solving the educational problem in the South. The curriculum and methods of Roanoke are patterned after the best northern colleges...
...Greek at Harvard is a subject that periodically receives the attention of the faculty of our university; and although in the past the defenders of Greek, like the defenders of ancient Greece, have bravely met and routed their opponents, the struggle to lessen the importance of Greek in the curriculum by giving more prominence to French and German has been again and again renewed; and now, strengthened by Adams's essay read before the Phi Beta Kappa in June, the supporters of the modern languages have renewed the contest with more vigor than ever before. At the last meeting...
...safety ordered the students to be removed, and the three buildings, Massachusetts, Old Harvard and Old Stoughton were turned into barracks. No college work was done till the following September. In that month, as the siege was still in progress, the college assembled at Concord where the regular curriculum was carried on till June 1776, when all returned to Cambridge. Meanwhile, as the common soldiers occupied the buildings, the provincial Congress had caused the library and apparatus to be removed to Andover. Here they remained in safe keeping at the Theological Seminary until 1778, when they were returned...
...last fifty years two remarkable movements in popular education which have also largely modified the academical schools. In 1830, New England was the undisputed leader in American education. The system of training was fixed by the leading colleges and academies and was everywhere of the same type. The college curriculum centered on the classics and the mathematics, with marked attention to that type of mental and moral philosophy most in favor with the clerical class. Science was taught chiefly from text-books, with history, modern languages, and English literian in a rapidly diminishing scale. These institutions were all under...
...singular fact that the important subject of hygiene has never, until now, been included in the curriculum of the Harvard Medical School, which may rightfully lay claim to being considered the first institution of the kind in the country. The omission is the more remarkable in view of the fact that in some of the Western States, where medical practitioners are obliged to secure a license from the State before practising in it, proficiency in hygiene is prescribed as one of the requisites for admission to practice; so that a graduate of the Harvard Medical School hitherto might justly...