Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...degree to those who have been educated at universities where two classical languages are not compulsory. When once the "previous examination" is passed the "ordinary" student usually proceeds to take one or more special examinations. It is suggested to increase the number of these and generally to widen the curriculum. New subjects may be introduced and regrouping will probably follow...
...minds of Englishmen is not now discarded. That the greatest stronghold of Greek and Latin should not adjust its requirements until 1918 gives convincing proof of their durability. The demand for men whose training has been devoted entirely to success in business has caused an addition to the college curriculum, not a substitution. Mental training and the need of it remain the same however much the world changes. That which has developed great minds in the past will develop them in the future. The worth of classics in this respect has been proved; nothing can lessen...
...brought about a change in the Tufts curriculum. Two new intensive emergency courses, one in chemistry, and the other in industrial electricity, have been announced by President Bumpus, as a result of the nation's imperative demand for technically trained...
Introducing the course of training offered by the Wentworth Institute, President Williston said that its curriculum, although primarily one of peace-arts, was especially adaptable to trench-warfare. The instruction will be divided into six groups: the study of mass and reinforced concrete construction, timber instruction, laboratory instruction in testing the strength of materials, the rigging of lifting apparatus and the handling of heavy materials, electricity as applied to military tactics, and a study of hydraulics...
...policy. In all countries, it has been the most highly educated that have most strongly supported the war against Germany because they best realized what a defeat from that nation would mean to the world. Enthusiastic support means work, and particularly cheerful work, both in the curriculum and in the military side of the university. Intelligent support means that each man is to prepare himself for the work for which he thinks. himself best fitted. In general, for the men here that signifies preparation for military-service. Daily Princeton