Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges was held on Nov. 14 and 15 at Boston University. Ten colleges, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, Williams, Amherst, Brown, Tufts, Dartmouth, Trinity and Boston University, were respectively represented by their Presidents and one Professor. The subject for discussion this year was "The Place of Modern Languages in the College Curriculum...
...curriculum for the senior and junior years in Princeton College has been greatly changed, the proportion between required and elective studies altered, and subjects, hours, and instructors all put into new relations. Heretofore, the required studies of senior year have occupied ten hours a week, and the electives only four; now the required studies take nine and the electives five hours a week. The alterations in the junior year are not so extensive...
...Persian language has been added to the curriculum at Cornell...
...race caused a crowded platform to give way, probably with fatal results to some. The accident will serve to emphasize the importance of placing some regulation and restraint upon college sports. Probably the best way this could be done would be to make athletic training a part of the curriculum. If a student were compelled to blister his hands with a pair of oars, or cripple his fingers with a hard base ball, or "stand up" before Prof. John L. Sullivan for a specified time every day, perhaps the fascination would wear off, and he might be induced to give...
...opportunities offered to those who wish to perfect themselves in the writing of modern English. It has been said for some time that there is a strong party in the board of overseers who are in favor of directing a larger share of attention in the arrangement of the curriculum to the exact and comprehensive study of our mother tongue. However this may be, it is certain that the department of modern English and of theme instruction in the college is very much in need of reorganizing or of strengthening in some manner or other. The prescribed courses given...