Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, April 6.The charges of intellectual stagnation at Yale due to abnormal interest in athletics, are again proven absolutely false. The prospectus of elective courses for the next year shows a remarkable educational advance in the innovations and additions to Yale's curriculum. History, Political Economy and English are the three most popular branches of study here, and the Faculty has shown a full appreciation of this fact. In history there are four additional electives added, one of which - Ancient Oriental History - is believed to be the only course of its kind offered at an American College. In Economics...
...never been neglected, and the Union has found no cause to complain of any falling off in the interest of those to whom it looks for its chief support. Its work has never, we believe, been hindered by lack of competent instructors, no matter what addition to its curriculum may have been planned...
...Roosevelt went on to say that he was an emphatic believer in devotion to studies and the demands of the curriculum; he would not belittle these a particle, but the student was not the most important person for the college to produce. The college should produce men first, students afterwards...
...original memoir of the discoverer of that fact or principle. Out of these two fundamental propositions, that law is a science, and that science is to be studied in its sources, there gradually grew, first, a new method of teaching law; and, secondly, a reconstruction of the curriculum of the school...
...plan is generally commended, but some authorities have criticised unfavorably the first feature, because an extra term would have to be added to the West Point curriculum, by which the time of the students is already completely occupied. Objection is made to the second feature on the ground that different elements of soil and climate are found in the western forests from the eastern...