Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...order of the Italian Government, English is to be added to the curriculum of the colleges in that country...
...tending now in our curriculum to in crease more and more the number of specializing courses in many departments, a very natural outcome of our elective system and the growth of the University Such, for instance, are many of the courses in the English department dealing with Anglo-Saxon poetry as distinct from the rest of ancient English literature, the courses on the poets of the various centuries as distinct from those on the prose writers of the same, the relation of English literature to German, and other courses of a like nature, all of which tend to make...
...good example of the enterprising spirit shown is in the organization of the Chicago faculties. We find that separate faculties have formed for "academic" and "university" instruction. The line is drawn between the sophomore and junior years, and the curriculum of these years is wonderfully rich. Among the professional schools which Chicago hopes to establish are not only schools of law, medicine, fine arts, and engineering but also a "school of pedagogy...
...while such colleges as Smith, Vassar and Wellesley naturally draw a greater number because of their older institutions and their advantages of a college life, the Annex is making itself felt in the western States as well as the eastern, and that each year its better facilities and larger curriculum are appealing to women students. Such a situation therefore is extremely gratifying to those who have its interests at heart and it gives a greater impetus to establishing it on even firmer grounds...
...annual growth of the Annex has always been steady, and it is interesting to note under what promising circumstances it begins this fall. The improvements in the Fay Building have already been noted, but in addition to this there are a few additions this year to the curriculum. The Annex has long ago taken a high position among women's colleges, but it is gratifying to know how successful the efforts are to increase further its facilities and to strengthen its position...