Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Business in the autumn of 1916 marks another milestone in university education. In determining upon the character of the School, the committee considered with some care the different types in existence. There are in the United States at present three chief types: (1) the Wharton School, which has a curriculum of four years parallel to that of the college and which is essentially an undergraduate school; (2) the Harvard School of Business Administration, which has a two-years' curriculum of a frankly graduate character; and (3) the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth, which admits students...
...coming to demand for other professional schools. Thirdly, a purely undergraduate school of business excludes the possibility of any pronounced extension of the graduate or research courses, which are coming to be as important in applied economics as they are in pure economics. A four-years' undergraduate curriculum in business courses virtually exhausts the subject and leaves practically nothing for the research student. It was largely for these reasons that the Wharton School type was discarded as a model...
Princeton is strongly in favor of military training for college men, but opposed to drill as part of the university curriculum, according to a statement by Professor R. M. M. McElroy of Princeton. The intellectual side of military training, lectures, and other instruction, he believes to be a proper part of college work, but the drill should be reserved for summer military camps. Princeton tried to establish a training corps at the time of the Spanish War, and it was found to be a failure...
...drill, and there is little indication on the part either of the Faculty or of the student body of a desire to establish it. Modern military training involves two rather distinct elements, the one intellectual, the other largely physical. The first we believe to be part of a university curriculum; the second can be most economically and effectively managed by the National Military Training Camps...
...list of speakers is also significant. Mr. Thayer, as editor of the Graduates' Magazine for twenty-three years, has been a leading observer of the growth and standardization of the curriculum. Professor Parker has been the actual administrator of the present method of concentration and distribution. And President Lowell's talk will have the clearness and authoritativeness of the founder of the elective system who has made this, like the Freshman dormitories, one of the fundamental policies of his administration...