Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the study of osteopathy has become much more rigorous since Dr. Wilson was graduated from Kirksville. All the osteopathic colleges now require at least graduation from a standard high school (reliable regular medical schools require a college degree as minimum), and four years study of osteopathy. The osteopathic curriculum includes a working knowledge of anatomy, physiology, chemistry, biology, embryology, bacteriology, pathology, surgery, dietetics, hygiene. For study of these basic sciences standard medical texts are used. But in the study of diagnosis and treatment osteopaths have their own special texts...
...once reduced. Except in the University's separately-budgeted medical school, where salaries this year go down 10% to 20%, he has allowed no cuts in staff or pay. But he has, in the past two years, eliminated 300 duplicate or overlapping courses from the University's curriculum...
President Eliot was the first head of Harvard to conceive and attempt to realize college training which should be training for life. Before his reforms the college curriculum was a beaten track, the benefits of which were a few tags, a few poor "accomplishments" like those accomplishments prized by the woman of the Nineties, which marked a man as educated. Beyond that the gains of education were largely incidental--a little disciple, a few hard-won pleasures...
Last week the Harvard Crimson headlined the news that curricular changes announced for Phillips Academy, Andover, forecast curricular changes for Harvard. Next autumn Andover will lighten its emphasis on modern and ancient languages, increase it on history, mathematics and science. The Crimson assumed that Andover's curriculum is based upon Harvard requirements. Ergo, Harvard would change too. Harvard officials quickly disabused the Crimson editors of their notion...
...close friend Woodrow Wilson's administration in 1910. During his 20 years Princeton's endowment was quintupled, its faculty pay, enrollment, buildings and acreage all about doubled. His constant emphasis on elevating Princeton's intellectual standard resulted finally in a new liberalized curriculum and the four-course plan for upperclassmen. Three foreign governments decorated him for his devotion to Peace. Good, grey, well-known and well-beloved by all Princeton men, he had been living quietly in Princeton since retiring, occupied with writing and lecturing. He gave up his chauffeur last November...