Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Thomas Allan Dwyer gained admittance to Fordham University in New York this autumn, he was a problem that deans of practically every U. S. college have encountered. Cripples are usually excellent students. Their will to learn and their abstinence from extra-curriculum work tends to make them so. Yet they are apt to be painful to physically normal undergraduates. Father Charles J. Deane, dean at Fordham, had urged against Student Dwyer's enrollment...
Irrespective of the fact that the effort was probably too great for the result obtained, and that the initiative was displayed in a field outside of the general run of the college curriculum, it is nevertheless true that these men had a definite object in view and they persevered until they got it. Their display of initiative was spectacular, receiving much approbation from enthusiastic supporters of Indiana's athletics, and a corresponding amount of censure from the more level-headed ones who questioned the wisdom of sacrificing three or four days of classes for one football game. In either case...
...compared the regulations of the various colleges given above can fail to observe that the great superiority of the Harvard system over the rest, including our own, is the fact that there is some plan about it, some attempt at a rational ordering of each student's curriculum. We talk vaguely of "laying a good foundation" and of "two years of concentrated study" and we boast that our graduates are well-rounded as well as being rather deeply learned in one direction. I say they are neither.....Intellectually I am Gilbert's "a thing of rags and patches;" my mind...
...hundred Law School students attended the first meeting yesterday afternoon of an elective course in accounting to be given this year by Professor R.G. Walker and Professor T.H. Landers of the Business School. This course, for which no credit will be given, has been added to the curriculum because Roscoe Pound Hon. 20, Dean of the Law School, considers it highly desirable that law students should familiarize themselves with some of the problems of the business world in which law plays an important part...
...Walker on Thursdays. The course will end on April 15. This type of course, is an innovation at the University, and has never before been given in the United States. It deals with a subject of increasing importance in the field and will probably have considerable influence on law curriculum in general...