Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...artillery you deal with material, in the infantry with men, and to handle men well requires more training and experience than to fire a field piece or compute a range. I believe that the training of an infantry officer might well occupy a place in every college curriculum. In addition to the artillery and infantry units, I would favor aviation, heavy artillery, and chemical warfare units...
...willingness of the University to give credit for such work and the addition of these military and naval courses to its regular curriculum show a realization of the prime importance of every student to prepare himself for all-around service. The creation of a great country with adequate means for its maintenance in the face of all attacks will be the ambition of all colleges, and in educating young men to meet all exigencies which may arise, they will perform a true and complete service to the United States...
...Catalogue of the Summer School which is published today, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces a large number of summer courses open to students of the College and the Engineering School. The curriculum will be unusually complete this year, and will include almost every course which is offered during the winter term...
...reforms which he introduced were not only revolutionary in their character as regards the College, but they were also revolutionary in the general field of education at that time. The development of the elective system gradually displaced an almost completely prescribed curriculum. And the three year course for the A. B. degree was introduced at his direction to shorten the college period for those who found the preparation for professional schools too long. That these radical changes were timely is conclusively shown by statistics, for in 1869, the year in which he became President, a total of two hundred...
...Princeton University faculty took action yesterday afternoon that will result in the abolition of the degree of bachelor of letters and will bring about several radical curriculum changes. It was voted that Greek will no longer be on the list of entrance requirements. Latin is to be retained as a requirement for the degree of A.B., but candidates for the degree of S.B. may substitute mathematics or science...