Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct an acaartillery and engineers, and the creademy for the few cadets then in service; but, says the Colonel of the Corps, "the Institution soon ran into disorder, and the Teacher into contempt." Under Government management, however, the Academy began to broaden its scope of learning, and the early curriculum of Mathematics and Engineering was supplemented by Frence and Drawing. At that time the 30 odd cadets lived in barracks dating from the Revolution, boarded promiscuously, and attended, classes in the two-story wooden "Academy...
During the twentieth century too, the present curriculum and administrative policies were established. The limited academic field of earlier years gave way to a course likewise arbitrary in its requirements, but considerably winder in range; so that the cadet graduating now is generally studied in French, Spanish, and English literatures, as well as in matters more directly military. The fundamental subject is, however, engineering, and in this the cadets are thoroughly trained...
...recent notice posted by the secretary of the Harvard Law School reminds Law School men of a long-standing regulation that no law student is to take part in any University extra-curriculum activity not directly connected with the study...
...curriculum," Dean Hawkes explained, "recognizes the fact that there are three types of students each one of which is worthy and on each one of which the degree of the college will gladly be conferred upon the completion of the requirements for the degrees...
...Extra curriculum activities at Oxford are decidedly secondary." Maud answered, responding to a question. "One can serve both God and Mammon there because of their relative importance in our minds. Outside activities are necessary to some extent, but they do not encroach upon the primary motive of our college life, studies. Such a paper as the CRIMSON would be entirely too much of an effort for us to make and still devote ourselves to studies...