Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wanted to make a dirty little infidel out of my child," said Sunday, "I'd send him to one of these universities where they keep the Bible out of the curriculum. If the young men of Harvard had the least bit of encouragement, they'd be swept into the Kingdom like doves. There was once a great revival at Yale. Will it come at Harvard...
Professor Hollingsworth closes his chapter on the "Curriculum a Vocational Test" with the following significant remarks. "On the whole, then, all these studies point in a consistent direction; those who are destined to achieve distinction do so at an early age. Whether measured by achievement in academic courses, honors in professional and technical courses, salary earned after graduation, or inclusion among lists and directories of eminent men, success in later life is suggested by the early work of the school curriculum. In spite of frequent comments to the contrary, the school curriculum would seem to constitute a most useful test...
...number of actual students pursuing definite courses. Columbia, which has formerly been granted this position, owes most of its numerical strength to its summer school and extension courses. It is estimated that more than 20,000 people are reached annually through the medium of Columbia's extra-curriculum activities...
Paradoxical as it may sound, success in business today is a direct result of doing the unnecessary. We have all experienced the feeling of incredulity when we discover a man seriously at work on some course of his own making which is not in the College curriculum. We feel a curious mixture of sensations; a little wonder, a little of something much akin to envy, and perhaps unqualified condemnation of his conduct...
...beyond your first conjectures of a college has Harvard grown; changed in form and curriculum it assuredly is; but the ideals which you raised are still our ideals; the verities you would uphold are still our beliefs, and your Veritas is still our banner of advance...