Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Undoubtedly the paramount problem before the undergraduate community is the proper adjustment of academic and extra-curriculum work. The neglect of scholarship is a deplorable fact; persistent attention to so-called "outside activities" in omnipresent. We realize fully the maladjustment of our college life, and our problem concerns its readjustment. In the solution it is obvious that the various activities of some two-thousand men cannot be reduced to one pursuit, scholarship, but it seems possible that a closer connection may be set up between college courses and other undergraduate endeavor. If such a connection be possible, academic work will...
Although the Debating Council has made repeated efforts to stimulate interest in debating, this extra-curriculum activity certainly has not received its due proportion of the time and attention of the members of the University. The inter-class debates, which the Council has re-established, have tended to arouse further interest in the College. However, this year the Freshman class has furnished little promising material and the outlook for a successful team is exceedingly dubious...
...some colleges having a prescribed curriculum, an alternating alphabetical system of seating all classes has been tried; A's in front at 9 o'clock recitations, and in back at 10, and so on; but this plan would not apply so successfully with the elective system. However, if a few more instructors would depart from the time honored custom of assigning seats now in use, it would make the matter more nearly right. There is little danger of so many of them changing as to reverse the present order and place the man catalogued under A in the same disadvantageous...
...registration this year is larger than ever before. Williams has an unusually small entering class, but no explanation of the decrease has been given. It may be that the college is experiencing one of those depressions that come some time to all institutions, or it may be that the curriculum controversy has had its effect. Amherst's incoming class is small, but the college authorities declare that it is exceptionally well prepared, indicating that higher standards of scholarship will soon prevail. Many of the colleges have had important additions to material equipment during the summer, and all signs point...
...unknown at Yale or Princeton) go through their first year utterly ingnorant of what Appleton Chapel has to offer. Because Appleton represents in their minds the College form of the preparatory school compulsory morning chapel, they avoid it as an irksome task no longer required by the curriculum. The same idea is apt to remain fixed in the Sophomore mind. Perhaps, as a Junior, the individual may be compelled to attend an 8.15 o'clock training table. In order not to seem odd, he may some day go to Chapel with the rest of the team or crew. Gradually...