Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidence from two sources that his stand is not justified by the facts. President Lowell, in his speech at Yale last week, stated that he had found that the graduates making the greatest successes in after life had done well in college studies while the prevalent opinion that extra-curriculum activities were more valuable as a preparation for later life has no basis for its claims. President Lowell has carried on exhaustive investigations on this subject for many years and the results of his search are proof of his theory, long held by teachers...
...American Telephone and Telegraph Company is to be accepted as typical. From among the ten thousand college graduates employed by that concern, those who ranked highest in college now hold the bighest position on its rolls, while there is found no similar analogy for those who excelled in extra-curriculum work. When allowance is made for the considerable number who are included in both categories, it will be seen that these figures go even farther than President Lowell's in upholding the value of scholastic accomplishment...
...most likely leaders of a generation hence the college man or woman is important; regarded as only an entity in the multitude of America, whose masses enjoy secondary education in greater proportion than in any other country on the globe, the college man shrinks to numerical insignificance. The college curriculum is an Aeneas riding on the shoulders of the high school curriculum, which must adapt itself to college entrance demands, and so loses power in serving the quantitatively greater need...
With the recent vote of the Athletic Council of the University of Illinois that henceforth all sports at that university are to be "major" sports, the much discussed problem of the place of athletics in the college curriculum takes a new and interesting turn. In September of this year the regulation will become active, and from then on major letters will be awarded to the members of all athletic teams at Illinois. The decision was reached after consultation with the minor sport captains, the opinion of the majority inclining apparently toward the view that to award major insignia...
...nature of the Harvard curriculum has made such official sanction unnecessary to make this kind of study an institution. One may regret that the credit system, the greatest flaw in the American educational scheme, should taint the orthodox amateurism of the vagabonding student, but it may also be interpreted as a cheerful token of growth...