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Word: curriculum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Vassar College said, not long since, that "colleges for men seem to be places where they can kick off a great deal of superfluous energy and experience of youth, where they can be trained to be fit for the society of young women, and while they are undergoing this curriculum is it not just as well that the young women should remain at Smith and Vassar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 4/23/1883 | See Source »

...will appear. In the older colleges it would require some re-organization. In the colleges where it is under trial the women are in a considerable minority. If a new college could be opened, or an old one, with an equal number of both sexes, and with a flexible curriculum and other adaptations to the proposed new order, I should be glad to see the experiment fairly tried. I can only say that I am glad that there is no call for us to undertake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1883 | See Source »

...faculties of Bates and Williams have excused the editors of the college papers from a portion of the literary work of the curriculum, a precedent that we hope will be followed elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 4/20/1883 | See Source »

...holiday in a large city. These are, clearly enough, grave objections, and can be urged against some (by no means against all) of the inter-collegiate contests. The time lost to the student, the money expended by the college, and the attention distracted from the studies of the curriculum, have all been enlarged upon and exaggerated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DEFENSE OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS. | 4/19/1883 | See Source »

...educational advancement of that country has greatly increased throughout America. Dr. Blyden is the president of Liberia College, is a fluent linguist (speaking no less than seven languages), and has done more to advance the prosperity of the negro race than many a statesman far more famed. The college curriculum is much more advanced than might be supposed, embracing a thorough course in classical Greek, with practice in the use of the modern tongue; the study of Latin through Caesar, Tacitus, Virgil and Livy; mathematics through conic sections, with especial attention to surveying and other practical applications; and a careful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA-ITS COLLEGE. | 4/12/1883 | See Source »

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