Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...department of elocution at Harvard is at present weak. If students would in a body feel the necessity of making most of the facilities offered, we feel sure the faculty would be obliged to take steps in order to bring up elocution to its proper standing in the college curriculum. As matters now stand, only a few men go into elocution, and the sections are small. Even with but one instructor, a far larger number of students would find it much to their profit to make the most of the advantages now afforded in this branch of a full...
Harvard adds a veterinary department to its curriculum this year. - [Ex.] We thought it would come some time. The student's best friend is at last to receive official attention. - [Northwestern...
...vast, unexplored sea of knowledge." We are sometimes forced to smile in a rather conceited manner, while reviewing the long list of studies offered by our elective system, when we read in some exchange the rejoicings of an editor over "the advancement in the scope of the curriculum" at his particular college, and with no little pride congratulate ourselves that Harvard University has approached more nearly to the ideal university than any institution in the country...
...Dartmouth curriculum has just been thoroughly revised, and as now arranged is thus described: The course of study to be pursued by candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts is made up of prescribed and elective studies, in addition to which certain optional studies are provided for in senior year. Latin-scientific students, or candidates for the degree of bachelor of letters, pursue the same studies, except in the prescribed courses in Greek, in place of which they pursue certain courses specified in the accompanying schemes. In freshman, sophomore and junior years, attendance is required at fifteen exercises...
...success in a country so cosmopolitan as the United States, whose financial markets, whose learned professions, and whose general society is influenced and even controlled by an ever-enlarging element of foreigners. A recent writer in the New York Post says in regard to some salutary changes in the curriculum of modern languages at Columbia...