Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rhodes scholar may be an undergraduate, and he is chosen chiefly for his qualities of leadership, both in the classroom and on the athletic field. On the other hand, a Harkness scholar must be a graduate of some British university, and although athletic ability and leadership in extra-curriculum activities are by no means disqualifications, the first considration is intellectual ability and originality...
Although this moy seem to be in some ways like the State universities in the West, there is an essential difference. In America the State not only contributes to the support of the school, appoints its officials, and, as in the case of evolution, restricts its curriculum. On the other hand, the British university that is supported by local funds still retains its independence, for the towns have acted in a most generous fashion, allowing the universities to spend the money as they think best...
Beginning at 10.30, Faculty Advisors will hold office hours to discuss with their charges the planning of their college curriculum. From 12 to 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the members of the student advisory committee will be in session in the four Freshman Halls available for conference to the men assigned to them. Any Freshman who has not regularly been assigned to an upperclassman, should apply for an advisor at that time...
Within the next two or three weeks almost every non-athletic extra curriculum activity open to Freshmen will have issued its call for candidates from the entering class...
...features of the flapjack's new reverse are well-known: lectures instead of recitations, written instead of oral examinations, an elective curriculum, no more compulsory worship. Individualism was the keynote. New life entered the law and divinity schools. The libraries were expanded for research. "Virtue . . . duty . . . piety . . . righteousness," were more real words then than now; Dr. Eliot used them often. After 40 years, the name of John Harvard himself was no more deeply graven upon the tablets at Cambridge than Dr. Eliot's when he retired, at 75, "to spend the evening of his life in serenity...