Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...debate. They do not realize its importance. The facilities here for the acquirement of forensic training are admittedly very much inferior to those enjoyed at Cambridge, and it is now generally recognized at Yale that a beginning must be made higher up; that the deficiency in the college curriculum must be remddied...
...today at 4.30 in Sever 11. Subject: "Some Effects of the Enrichment of the Course of Study." Mr. Dutton is one of the foremost school superintendents in New England and is an interesting and forcible speaker. He was among the first to recognize the need of enriching the elementary curriculum and he has been working for some years at the practical enrichment of the course of study in the Brookline schools, which now rank with the best in the country. All members of the University are invited to be present to hear this prominent educational leader...
...series of afternoon lectures open to the members of the University and their friends. Such a scheme has much to commend it, and ought not to be lightly dismissed. Popular lectures at a convenient hour of the day would be an agreeable and legitimate addition to our University curriculum and could not fail to attract widespread interest. The audiences at evening lectures and readings are necessarily limited to members of the University and the Cambridge public. Vespers and the glass flowers are at present the only attractions for other friends of the University. It is to be hoped that those...
...Grammar School Curriculum...
There is one time at least when a Harvard man has a realizing sense of what his University gives him in return for what he brings it, and that is when he begins to recount to some outsider the attractions which are offered outside of the regular curriculum. Probably there are few things which he can say that make more of an impression than that the Boston Symphony Orchestra gives a regular series of concerts in the University theatre. Strange as it may seem, however, the concerts have not been generally well attended by the students. We look forward...