Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...notes those tendencies of the Harvard system which would make it appear a consistent development. Formerly, a specified length of residence was the most important qualification for the degree; now it is the passing of examinations on a definite number of courses or half-courses. Provided that the curriculum is so arranged as to allow considerable freedom of choice among half-courses of the first half-year, the Mid-year Commencement would be of obvious advantage to many whose work would conveniently be completed during the first half-year. Such would be men from other colleges who wished to spend...
...conduct themselves as gentlemen. As it is thought that the students are of an age and temperament to look with respect, if not with admiration, upon the men who-so often scholars of more than local reputation-have been assigned for their instruction, the College has offered in its curriculum no special course in manners...
...Medical and Art Schools opened last Thursday. The curriculum in the former has been lengthened to four years. A Fellowship Prize is offered in the Art School this year for the first time, a prize which will send the successful student to Paris for two years of study...
...awakening we are, perhaps, becoming too liberal; that is, we are too apt to make use of what might be called patent methods in education. Such a method is that known as centralization, the determining principle of which is that one continuous central theme shall run through the entire curriculum and that all other subjects shall be made merely supplementary to this. Mr. Green then disscussed the views of several advocates of the system and at the close of his talk questions from the audience in regard to the subject were answered by the lecture...
Seyeral important changes are soon to be made in the Law School curriculum which will be announced in the CRIMSON as soon as they are definitely decided upon: probably soon after the recess. The first-year class is to be divided on account of its size into two divisions which will be under the same instructors...