Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inspect the building and methods of Harvard's Gymnasium, or to secure the advice or active cooperation of its well known director. The latest instance of this fact is Cornell, whose trustees are considering the question of making a thorough course of gymnastic instruction a part of the college curriculum. At a recent meeting, we learn from the Era, "two systems were chiefly considered, the one now in vogue at Harvard, where the department is placed entirely in charge of a medical man, who is assisted by a small corps of instructors in gymnastics; the other is the Princeton system...
Although Cambridge University is generally regarded as second to Oxford in the classical curriculum, she has educated the principal English poets. Chaucer is generally believed to have been a Cambridge man, Milton was a Master of Arts at Christ's College, and Dryden went from Westmnster to Trinity College, Cambridge. Of the poets of this century, Wordsworth was a Johnian and Coleridge an under graduate of Jesus, Cambridge. Lord Byron is one of the glories of Trinity, and Alfred Tennyson was of the same college...
...range of study in each branch consisted of bald text-books, compendiums, grammars. What thoughtful woman, for example, in a good library with one year's quiet reading, would not absorb an infinitely wider and truer knowledge of either history, language or literature than was included in this school curriculum for four years? It is the letter that kills in our whole present school system; the spirit is needed to make alive...
...proposed changes in Harvard's curriculum, the Phillipian says: "The mere fact that such ideas, which would at one time have been treated as below notice, are now gravely considered by responsible and influential scholars, shows the advance that has been made in public opinion within the last twenty years. 'The old order changeth, giving place to the new,' and it has always been the glory and the boast of Harvard that she keeps abreast of the popular current. Yet even Harvard may well pause and reflect before she breaks away so entirely from the old moorings, before she gives...
...doubt very just, but others it must be said smack strongly of that military arrogance and self-sufficiency for which West Point has always been notorious. "They are thoroughly convinced," they say, "that the methods of instruction and the thoroughness of the teaching of the various parts of the curriculum of the military academy are not equalled, certainly not excelled, by any of the institutions visited by them. In several cases they found that standard scientific subjects were taught without the use of any text-books whatever, and the students learned only what little they could retain from short lectures...