Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...need of a broader curriculum has been felt by the faculty and considerable changes will be made at the beginning of the winter term...
College opens this fall with the prospect of a vigorous and successful year in all its departments. New men have been taken on its corps of instructors, and new courses have been added to its curriculum. The merits of the elective system, of which our University is the chief exponent, have been demonstrated in the past. We expect with confidence that the result of the work done during the coming year will make the success of the system only the more clear...
...upon the duties of the office surrendered to him by Dr. McCosh after his term of twenty years. President Patton's address, "The Princeton of the Future," delivered before a large audience in Marquand Chapel, was remarkable for its liberal and progressive spirit. He urged radical changes in the curriculum and a wider range of electives, matters which the faculty will take into consideration this term. It is the new president's ambition to have a thousand names in Princeton's catalogue...
...apparently slighted. The same narrow, pettifoging spirit still exists that was prevalent in every college a decade ago. The liberal principle of optional studies which has made such headway in all the leading colleges is to all practical purposes dead at Columbia. This conservative policy brings the college curriculum down to the same levelas the hum-drum routine of high school. It must be admitted on all sides that the undergraduate department of Columbia is far behind the age. The other schools are managed so as to keep abreast of the times, and this system has made them highly successful...
...reform, nor successful in her first attempts to introduce it, has by a series of happy coincidences taken her place at the very head of the column and stands today by universal consent at the head of American institutions, so far as number of different branches taught in its curriculum and the number of courses offered in each branch is concerned...