Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Columbia has introduced a course in Japanese in its curriculum. Russian will soon be taught in Seattle, "the American gateway to Russia." Portuguese is the last to break into the circle of college-taught languages. The significance of this sudden influx of new tongues is that foreign languages are no longer considered cultural studies, but are taking their places among the practical arts...
...attention by his attacks on our present educational system, and by his plans for instruction based largely on the training of sense rather than memory, as President Eliot expresses it. It is an interesting idea, already partly introduced in the public schools of Maryland. Dr. Flexner would divide the curriculum into four fields: science, industry, civics and aesthetics, proposing subjects and methods of immediate interest and practical value. Such a basis is surely sound. Every school boy has rebelled at "conjugating dead languages and reciting the imports of Uruguay...
Brown University has added a course in Portuguese to the curriculum. The instructor in charge, Dr. J. R. S. Leite, is a graduate of the University of Cornibra, Portugal. The course was added for the benefit of those intending to take up work in South America...
...that time to see a proof of the serious spirit of patriotism which actually existed among the members of the University. Some had doubted if the enthusiasm for the drill would last a month, and scoffed at the possibility of establishing regular military drill as part of the curriculum...
Besides gaining credit towards his degree, a student, after a two-years course in military science will be recommended to be placed on the list of reserve officers. The great value of such a plan is evident, for by taking those courses which are included in the regular curriculum a man may fit himself to take a commission in the reserve army in time of war. Previous to this new plan of creating college units of the reserve officers' training corps, anyone wishing a commission would have been compelled to have taken an additional course in some military school...