Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tomorrow is the last day that a student may make a change in his courses without paying the usual fine of $5. By a change of course is meant either dropping or adding a course to a student's curriculum. Such a fine will not be charged on the term bill but must be paid to the Bursar upon receipt of a notice sent from the Recorder's Office...
...fact that there will be a large number of discharged soldiers who will return late to College, the University Faculty will probably make a date of entrance later than the regular registration day, January 2. Men who cannot return before January 2, will thus be able to pursue their curriculum without inconvenience or delay. Without relaxing the usual scholastic standards, every effort will be made to lessen the difficulty such men will encounter on returning to College after an interruption of in some cases, three of four years...
...session in the Faculty Room at two o'clock, the topic of "The Effect of War on Education" was considered. President Jacob Gould Schurman, of Cornell University expressed his belief in the need of compulsory military training in colleges and universities. He said that Cornell had had in its curriculum two years of compulsory military training for three hours a week, but that he now advocated a combination of military and physical training to be prescribed for four years, with five hours of work a week. He said that West Point could not supply the officers necessary for a possible...
...colleges that have had to change and speed up their plan of work, probably the technical colleges have had greatest difficulties placed before them; they have to cover all of their ground just as thoroughly as before, and therefore they can cut from their curriculum only the non-essential work, of which there is very little...
...this condensing process, Technology has established a curriculum of eight terms of twelve weeks, compressed within two years. Within these terms the fundamentals have been changed very little, but some of the finishing touches have, of necessity, been omitted...