Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...railroad locomotive experiment and testing station is to be added to the Sibley College curriculum at Cornell, and will be built and in running order by next fall...
...every side, to multiply courses and instructors in every part of the broad domain of modern inquiry, to promote in each department, without regard to traditional rules, the methods of study and teaching found best for that department, and at last to obliterate nearly every relic of a required curriculum, and give to all study in Harvard College the essential characters of a freely chosen pursuit. In close connection with academic freedom of study stands that of conduct. The abrogation of the old undignified system of petty regulations, with their accompanying pains and penalties, and the adoption of a manly...
...last annual report of the board of directors charged with the care of Girard College. Changes which the founder would not have contemplated have been introduced and modern appliances such as he and his generation never dreamed of are now in daily use. The report says: "The ancient curriculum of the college, admirable, perhaps, in the early history of the institution, with less than five hundred scholars, but without many of the plans and appliances which modern modes of thought and of action make necessary for efficient work in the school-room, received much attention from the committee on instruction...
...themselves as teachers. Very many have already had experience in teaching and have abundant theoretical knowledge, but feel themselves ignorant about experimental methods. It can be seen that the school is developing in such a way as to meet their needs; laboratory work occupies a large place in the curriculum, and the subjects of physical training and of pedagogy are brought to the front. An answer is attempted to the question of how best to train young bodies and minds. It is a work in which Harvard is peculiarly adapted to lead and which will mean a still wider adoption...
Pedagogical Seminary. A Contribution to the History of the High School Curriculum. Mr. R. G. Huling. Sever...