Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profits last year voted to him by his directors. It will establish the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. Simultaneously shrewd Yankees in Vermont raised a six million dollar endowment for a college at Bennington. The students will be women; their studies designed specially to develop special talents; the curriculum fashioned to prepare students for "problems of a modern woman's world...
...lectureship was founded upon the condition that the lecture should not be made a part of the regular curriculum offered by the University, and should not be delivered by any professor or tutor in his usual routine of instruction. The choice of the lecturer is not limited to any one religious denomination nor to any profession...
...standpoint of the student, lies in changing the lecturer as often as possible. In Continental universities pupils are in the habit of transferring themselves from one institution to another, whereas in this country the tradition is for a student to remain under one set of teachers throughout his entire curriculum. A system has been started in a feeble kind of way so far as this country is concerned of exchanging professorships or lectureships. This is all in the right direction, not only from the standpoint of making things more pleasant for the pupil but also because by this means...
...their accouterment, and the employment of Marines as caddies would have been considered an hallucination. However, the announcement that the United States Naval Academy has recently become the first college of importance in the country to make the modern business man's relaxation a compulsory part of its curriculum substantiates the fact that great initiatory movements might have their inception in the most unexpected fountainhead. The penetrating of a new frontier by the "middies" is at one and the same time a challenge and a reproach to the rest of the collegiate athletic world which evidently has been...
Another innovation for next summer is the geological trip to Europe which will constitute a course in the Summer School's curriculum. This is now being planned by Professor K. F. Mather...