Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Across the water in the English universities, two thousand men in each of them go to their sports every afternoon as regularly as they go to their lectures every morning. These sports are and have been ever since the men were boys at school a part of their curriculum, and not once a week or once a month, but once a day from October to June. At two o'clock you see them pouring out at their college gates, and at four or there-abouts you see them hurrying back. Three hundred or so of them row; three hundred more...
...total student registration in the Sheffield Scientific School is 1144, an increase of 101 over last year's figures. Several now courses have been added to the curriculum of the Forest School of the university...
...Boston children. The women of the standing committee of the fund, together with many school teachers in the overcrowded districts, are working earnestly to make the fair a success, so that what has heretofore been haphazard field instruction may be systematized, and become a necessary part of the curriculum. Professor Hyatt, who established the fund, was for a long time Professor of Natural History at Harvard...
...college curriculum should be made to help the man who comes to college with the intention of working, and should not be adapted merely to the man whose only aim is to spend his four years of college life as enjoyably as possible. The affirmative requires much more convincing proof than the negative has brought forward, to accept the statement that because the elective system has failed at Harvard it will necessarily fall in all other colleges
...second speaker for the negative, demonstrated the evil results of the free elective system at Harvard. This system, he said, has proved in many ways, unsatisfactory. President Eliot, in his inaugural address expressed the hope that by means of the free election of studies each student would secure a curriculum, chosen with regard to natural preference and inborn aptitude. It was his aim to substitute small, interested classes for large, uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history...