Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...university. The idea took; and, in three centuries, many of the leading towns in Italy, France, and the German Empire, had their universities, while in England arose Oxford and Cambridge. It was not until 1708 that the plan of having special instructors for each study went into effect. The curriculum was also largely modified. In addition to the classics, mathematics, physics and astronomy were taken up, and the lecture system came into vogue. Such were the universities of the past. What is needed for the future...
Thus, I apprehend, the strictly professional uses of general knowledge fail to justify the grammar school and the art curriculum. Something, indeed, may still be said for the higher grades of professional excellence, and for introducing improved methods in the practice of the several crafts, for which wider outside studies lend their aid. This, however, is not enough; inventors are the exception. In fact, the ground must be widened, and include, secondly, the life beyond the profession. We are citizens of a self-governed country; members of various smaller societies; heads or members of families. We have, moreover, to carve...
...writer attributes this change to the introduction of the elective system of which he gives a brief description. He mentions as a fact not well known that on a recent attempt to make the entire curriculum elective, the vote was nearly a tie although the motion was lost...
...could be made useful would be to take up the study as an art, and have a perfect drill upon the rudiments, and, later, upon writing from dictation. Now it has always been contrary to the custom of the college to establish an art as part of the regular curriculum, and there is no reason to hope that an exception would be made in favor of phonography. Thus, while there are several courses in music and the fine arts, there are none in the art of singing or painting. Indeed, even if a course of such a nature should...
...feel that few persons are aware of the rapid strides which have been taken at Harvard of late years towards the complete and perfect study of Greek and Roman antiquities. Leaving out of account the curriculum of classical studies common to our colleges in general in a more or less eminent degree, we assume for Harvard the sole enjoyment in America of a chair for the study of classical philology in its strictest sense and as it is followed in the German universities. Such a course was not calculated to reveal any extraordinary or immediate developments, but it is hoped...