Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second Reading Period, unheralded by the journalistic pomp and circumstance that greted its predecessor, has given in May the dignity of an accepted innovation to what was in January an educational experiment. But the Reading Period has not yet completed its own justification as a fixture in the Harvard curriculum. The increase in honor grades of two percent, the increase of one percent in satisfactory grades, and the decrese of three percent in grades below the level of C would offer insufficient space for the seal of official approval, even if grades were to be considered the ultimate test...
...Academy, at Lebanon, Tenn. What could have been Bernarr Macfadden's motive in this act, few could say. He himself announced that his friend, Lieutenant William Goodson of the U. S. Army, would run the school much as it has been run in the past, except that its curriculum would include several courses in "physical culture...
...piquance of their own, as they spring from the minds of Emerich Edward Dalberg, Baron Acton, who visited the University in the year of the great New York Exhibition, and John A. Benn, young Englishman who studied a year at Princeton before writing his study of the American college curriculum, "Columbus Undergraduate...
Aside from the happy freshness of such a belief, there is savor in comparison of Mr. Benn's convictions with those of Baron Acton, who, according to the current Commonweal, seventy-five years ago wrote in his diary of the Harvard curriculum...
...kind of vanity. Whatever the impetus, it is a fact that learning is desirable at Harvard, and yet that curiously enough, fewer men have leisure than ever before. Still the utilitarian character of the country remains, but still, as Mr. Benn says, its taint has not infected the Harvard curriculum...