Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With the growth of Harvard the gaps in the curriculum which the university should offer if it is properly to fulfill its functions have become more and more conspicuous. A constant demand on the part of many students for a course in astronomy the college has hitherto failed to meet, alleging lack of funds. Since 1878 the faculty have offered no course in astronomy whatever. This year, however, a determined effort will be made to do away with this deficiency. Mr. Wilson, who has for four or five years been engaged in special research in electricity at the Jefferson Physical...
...thorough revision of the whole scheme of courses which has been made since the elective system was introduced. This thorough revision last year tended first of all to develop the courses designed especially for graduates; and secondly to arrange far more systematically all the courses which make up the curriculum. This year the same plan has been followed out; and it is plain to see that the great care has been to perfect the new arrangements which during the past year have been successfully begun. In arranging the scheme for this year the faculty have had an unusually hard task...
...Chicago; evening courses in College and University subjects: correspondence courses and special courses in a scientific study of the Bible. The central university, located at Chicago, will operate through a system of preparatory branch schools scattered throughout the country, under the direct control of the central University. The regular curriculum may be dispensed with and bright and ambitious students allowed to complete the college course as circumstances direct. The committee on buildings favor adopting the seminary plan,- that is, to arrange the recitation rooms in suites of three to five rooms around a central room, which shall contain the library...
...fact that Professor Gray is giving a course at the Institute of Technology has induced the managers of the Advocate to send cards to the members of the college to find out their sentiment, for the purpose of petitioning the faculty to add such a course to the curriculum. Other editorials discuss the projects of bicycle races with Yale, the merits of cricket and the workings of the Foxcroft club...
...Yale faculty are about to make some important changes in the academic curriculum by which the study of philosophy will be begun at the beginning of the junior year. Hereafter it will be entirely finished in the junior year. The required work in astronomy will also probably be changed from the junior year back to the sophomore year, thus finishing up mathematics in the sophomore year. The work of the senior year will be made up practically of elective courses; there will be four two-hour-a-week courses offered one of which the seniors will be required to choose...