Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...term opens October first and until the winter comes on it is possible that a little excavating may be done. During the months of cold weather the curriculum is one of great latitude. The resident director lectures three or four times a week in the library of the school and in the various museums of the city. The students attend these lectures and as a general thing pursue under supervision some course of Greek reading. Toward the end of March excavating is begun and continued until the weather becomes...
...curriculum at Princeton, English in the junior year, which has hitherto been prescribed, has been placed among the electives...
Several senior electives in classics, philosophy and political economy have been added to the Dartmouth curriculum...
Important changes are being made in the Amherst curriculum, particularly in the Scientific Department. The students have been greatly dissatisfied with the present method of elections, which allow them no freedom in the choice of studies till the senior year...
...direct, while in the United States there is an intermediate step in the colleges. In this country there are two roads leading from high schools to professional schools, either through or around the college. Very few of the present high schools fit men for college; the high school curriculum is complete in itself, it is a cul de sac leading nowhere, and the high school graduate who wishes to change his mind and enter college must spend additional years in preparation...