Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will surely give is to be eagerly anticipated. From the very day that complications between Germany and the United States arose, President Lowell has worked ceaselessly to give Harvard the quickest and best facilities to turn out trained officers. In the beginning he waived many rules of the scholastic curriculum in order that additional men might join the R. O. T. C. without jeopardizing their degrees. By the recent move of the Faculty entire liberty has been given all men to terminate their College work and devote as much time as is feasible to military instruction. No college head could...
...units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Dean Jones has said that if war came he would like to see the university grounds turned into a training camp, the dormitories into barracks, the "Commons" dining hall used as a mess room, the athletic fields as parade grounds, all extra-curriculum activities eliminated, and the students, while attending classes, giving the greater share of their attention to military preparation. He would also like to see the students, should a call for volunteers come, formed, if possible, into a distinctive Yale organization...
...events of the current year? Leak Investigation 1, for example, ought to be a very popular course. Since it has been proved that history never repeats itself, it is ridiculous to study events of the past. The history of events previous to 1900 should be thrown out of the curriculum, if for no other reason than that it unquestionably overtaxes the undergraduate's memory--already sufficiently strained in keeping his tea dance engagements in proper order...
...endowment, support, and maintenance provided that the university "teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics," has ever since its founding included a compulsory course in military science and tactics in its curriculum...
While it is proverbially difficult to enlist the interest of the undergraduate members of the University in anything that is called a lecture or a course of lectures which lie outside the curriculum, it is easy to draw audiences for well-known men who are fitted to speak on subjects of general interest. Such a speaker and such a subject are contained in the series of talks being given by Dr. A. T. Davison '06 on "The History and Development of Choral Music" in Huntington Hall, Boston. The public has already realized the opportunity of hearing one of the best...