Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Athletic sports are wholly unknown in the universities (in the schools gymnasium work is a part of the prescribed curriculum) unless we choose to dignify the disgusting habit of dueling with the title...
...freshman course, devoting the first of the three terms to chronology and general history; the second to special history, embracing the leading epochs with particular attention to modern times; the third term was given to the philosophy of history. It was early recognized at Ann Arbor that the college curriculum through the modifying influence of the elective system, actually represented two kinds of training, collegiate and university, or gymnastic and scientific. While the early part of the entire course was given up to a variety of required studies for the purpose of general culture, the latter part of the curriculum...
...study of history in some form, biblical or classical, may have been introduced into the curriculum of Yale College in its earliest years; but the first formal recognition of the subject was "the appointment of President Stiles to a professorship of ecclesiastical history in 1778. He held his professership till his death-in 1795-and after him it was held by Professor Kingsley from 1805 to 1817. There is abundant evidence that his interpretation of the field of ecclesiastical history was a very wide one; it was simply that he, an ecclesiastic, taught general history. I should be very loath...
...that one hour a week on Saturday afternoon's during the winter, is set aside for the study of history, the same amount of time during the summer being given up to the study of nature. There is no reason for believing that the standing of history in the curriculum of Harvard College was very much improved for two centuries after these scholastic Foundations. It was not until the year 1839 that the first professorship in history was instituted. It was the first distinct endowment of that special branch in any particular college...
Yale was peculiarly fortunate last year in the number and variety of the various lecture courses that were given outside of the regular curriculum. Some of these were organized by different associations of the students themselves, while others were given by different alumni. One of these, the Dw ght Hall lecture course, has already reorganized for this year, and its first lecture, was given last Monday by Mr. George W. Cable, who spoke very entertainingly on "Cobwebs in the Church." The most of the lecturers who follow in this course have not yet been made public, but it is expected...