Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual Princeton catalogue has been completed but will not be ready for distribution until the first of the week. The new number has been somewhat delayed this year on account of the many changes and additions that have been made in the curriculum...
...appears that three new names have been added to the faculty since the last annual publication: namely, Professors Harper, Dodd and Rankin. The chair in Political Economy and Jurisprudence is still vacant, but will probably be filled by the trustees at their next annual meeting in February. The new curriculum is given in full form...
...middle class has only one hundred and five. Last year the second year class was known as the senior and it numbered two hundred and forty-three. There is no senior class this year as the present middle class is the first for which a three-year curriculum was made compulsory. Of the college graduates in the school Columbia leads with forty-one, while the College of the City of New York and Yale each have nineteen; Princeton has fifteen, and Harvard thirteen; Williams has ten. Fifty-six other colleges and universities, including the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin, Leipsic...
...curriculum has been broadened and enlarged. Twenty new professorships have been established and a great many of the courses now are elective. In the sophomore year four hours a week of electives are allowed; in the junior year, six hours, and in the senior year, ten hours. In the graduate department the courses since 1878 have more than doubled. Great importance is laid on this department. Another progressive feature at Princeton is the continual increase of cordiality existing between the faculty, alumni, and undergraduates. In 1875 there were five alumni associations. Now there are nineteen, all working actively...