Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...funeral of the late esteemed Jesse James, murderer by profession, the "President of Liberty College" officiated and delivered a touching eulogy upon the deceased. We have no doubt Liberty College is one of the Western institutions whose curriculum "is fully on a par with Harvard...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: One of the greatest inducements Harvard offers to men to come here, is the fact that the opportunities for improvement are not limited to the studies put down in the regular curriculum. Harvard has more voluntary courses than any other college in the country; and although in some cases the audiences seem small, there is no doubt but that the students appreciate their opportunities and try to take advantage of them. One great reason for small attendance at many extra courses is the fact that they conflict with regular courses. Of course there must be conflicts...
...Inquirer." - No, your derivation is wrong. Curriculum is from Curro, to run; said of a place where ponies are exercised, and hence of a college course...
...says: "The statistics of the last ten years in this country show that the percentage of failures of college graduates in business is decidedly less than of non-graduates. In driving a bargain the college boy may safely be backed against his commercial cousin. Does not the college curriculum provide admirable training in the management of tailors' bills and the adjustment of expense accounts for the paternal inspection?" The slight flippancy of that last sentence may be disregarded, and the statement of fact given in the extract stands as a convincing argument for sceptics. Indeed, the question is hardly...
...especially ill-adapted. This fact indeed has been long recognized, but the innate conservatism of college authorities, as well as a natural tendency to extend the methods of primary teaching even to collegiate instruction, has sufficed to insure it a lamentable prevalence in every stage of the college curriculum. The absurdity of applying the methods of the common schools to the liberal studies of any university, which is in reality a university, is very manifest. But especially the demoralizing effect which this system has upon the spirit and habit of thinking of the student is what emphatically condemns...