Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...read this article with attention. The Editor of the Monthly, however, in his comments on the subject, is mistaken in thinking that "the citadel of election" may already have fallen. Neither President Lowell, nor the Faculty, has as yet indicated any desire to replace an "elastic" by a "rigid" curriculum...
...curriculum is chosen for the development of the mental capacity and the character of the cadet, who is put through a rigorous course of instruction and physical training, and who, at all hours of the day and night, is under the immediate supervision of a commissioned officer. He leads the strenuous and the simple life. The Academy believes that no man can command others until he has himself learned the strictest kind of discipline...
West Point is unique among the higher educational institutions of the country as one in which the elective system has had little influence. In a little more than a century the Military Academy has sent out nearly five thousand graduates, trained in its strict curriculum, who have held and now hold places of trust and responsibility in official and in civil life. No college can show an equal number of alumni with better average records for public service. It is the West Point that trains men not only in engineering and in military science, but also in discipline...
...well acquainted with one another, or at least with their classmates. They were constantly thrown together, in chapel, in the classroom, in the dining hall, in the college dormitories, in their simple forms of recreation, and they were constantly measuring themselves by one standard in their common occupations. The curriculum, consisting mainly of the classics, with a little mathematics, philosophy and history, was the same for them all; designed, as it was, not only as a preparation for the professions of the ministry and the law, but also as the universal foundation of liberal education...
...scholarly aptitude, and comparatively little upon the particular branches of learning a student has pursued in college. Any young man who has brains, and has learned to use them, can master the law, whatever his intellectual interests may have been; and the same thing is true of the curriculum in the Divinity School. Many professors of medicine, on the other hand, feel strongly that a student should enter their school with at least a rudimentary knowledge of those sciences, like chemistry, biology and physiology, which are interwoven with medical studies; and they appear to attach greater weight to this than...