Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...past, men who have shuffled through a secondary school curriculum based on the Harvard examinations, or worked for a summer with a tutor experienced at "spotting" questions, have been able to enter the Freshman class. On the other hand, students, who have maintained a high rank of scholarship in the work prescribed at a school not primarily fitting its graduates for Harvard, have been seriously handicapped, if not actually deterred from submitting to the test...
...write a short paper stating their ideas on religion in general, the nature of their religious problems and the like. The discussions will be based upon these papers and will be extended to cover allied topics. Professor Royce conducts at Yale a similar course, which is part of the curriculum. The course has there attained remarkable success and it is believed that the discussions here will be of much interest to those who attend regularly...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has decided to make the following changes in the curriculum of the Summer School to take effect this year. No courses will be given in Botany or Greek, and the following courses in other departments will also be dropped: Education S5, English S60, Geology S6, Geology S20, Music S5, History S4, Mathematics SD, Mathematics S3, and all research courses in Mathematics, Physics SC, Physics SD, Public Speaking S7, Public Speaking S9, and Public Speaking...
...light when they were undergraduates; but after all it is the undergraduate who can profit personally by the new appeal for a fundamental change in the attitude of the average undergraduate toward his college work. In the last generation the opportunities for study in Harvard were enormously multiplied; the curriculum was enriched by so many courses taught in such enlightening ways that it was believed that the attraction of this new program with its elective system would be such that all that would be necessary would be to open the doors to the impatient students without any restrictions...
...Clubs. At Albany they will join the Harvard Club of New York. The party will arrive in Cleveland tomorrow morning. President Lowell will be among the members present. He will speak, at the business meeting at the Hotel Hollenden tomorrow afternoon, on the tendency of changes in the College curriculum...