Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...changes in the curriculum will be very slight. Among the additional instructors and new studies can be mentioned Mr. Hammond Lamont (Harvard, 66), who has been appointed an instructor in English at the university. He will have a course in advanced English composition. Dr. Maxime Bocher of Germany, instructor of mathematics at Harvard, will assume charge in a course of theory of functions, and Mr. Arthur Richmond Marsh will have a course in Dante and Spanish, besides his course in comparative literature. Professor Lyon has added the history of Israel, and Professor Ashley will teach political economy and the economic...
Among the opportunities offered to Harvard men outside of their college curriculum, perhaps the most remarkable is that for hearing music. This is an opportunity of which many of the students take advantage, but which very many others fail to recognize. For a number of years past there have been given a series of six or eight orchestral concerts in Sanders Theatre by the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and lately the Kneisel String Quartette have taken to giving chamber concerts in Brattle Hall. To say that the height of perfection in orchestral and chamber music is reached at these concerts...
...education of man for humanity by the method of nature is the one great principle of Comenius. He was also in favor of the equal education of both sexes, the improvement and enrichment of the curriculum by elevating the mother tongue to the first place and the education of everybody. Even at that early date, we find manual training being advocated. Men should be educated, said Comenius, so that when they enter the world they should not be mere observers but participants...
...order of the Italian government English is to be added to the curriculum of the colleges in that country...
...catalogue of Tufts College is out and is a very complete and well arranged book of the college and its curriculum. It contains many things that no other catalogue of the college has and is a much larger book...