Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Today's issue of the CRIMSON ends a term upon which we can look back with satisfaction. The University has continued its onward march. It is at present on a financial basis second to none in the country. This term has seen improvements in the curriculum and additions to almost every part of the University, the greatest gain being in the number of students in the scientific school. The term just closed is the only one in which there is no examinations. Hence it commends itself to many as the most enjoyable of the three. The term about to open...
...School has made a wonderful gain. Under the shadow of Technology, it is difficult to maintain an institution of this character. We are not only holding our own but actually progressing. This impetus can only be accounted for by the recent introduction of new courses. The additions to our curriculum give more and more opportunity for real University work, and this year's catalogue gives evidence that Harvard is still pressing onward...
Although an innumerable number of courses have been added to the college curriculum since the introduction of the elective system, one branch of professional study, in which a great many men now in college expect to engage after graduation, has been entirely overlooked. I refer to the establishment of a chair of journalism, to be classed under the same head as are all the English courses. There is no better way to test the popularity of an experimental course than making it in the first place voluntary, and then if the attendance warrants, changing it to a half or full...
...another column we publish a communication urging the establishment of a chair of journalism at Harvard. Each succeeding year witnesses the enlargement of the curriculum by the new courses in modern languages, science and philosophy, but not a step has yet been made to establish a course whose need is greatly felt. The fear either of the total failure, or but partial success, of a course in journalism is what deters the faculty from taking the initiative, and unfortunately there is no precedent at other colleges by which it is easy to judge the benefit of such a course. Lately...
...change has been made in the curriculum of the school, by which the 4th year has been made almost entirely elective. electives amounting to two hours a week have also been added to the 3d year...