Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inability of two parties to compete on unequal preparation is manifest, Princeton with a divisional system complete in two years. Yale with a system quite as dissimilar, Cambridge under a totally different conception of the curriculum, can scarcely compete with Harvard under a divisional plan in absolute accord with the terms of the competition. Harvard has made its own rules. This would be an obvious stumbling block in any field of competition. And particularly in the field of scholarship, one finds no definite limits, no rules of the game, whereby one and all may compete on the same grounds...
Modern literature courses are rarities on the curriculum of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. During 1928-29 the omission of courses such as English 26 and English 16 has left the catalogue barren indeed for the student searching a course in contemporary poetry or prose. At least one regular course covering the twentieth century literary field and its tendencies would undoubtedly find a sufficient patronage to warrant...
...Britons declined for reasons not announced. A challenge then was sent to Yale for an examination on any number of subjects, but this likewise came to enough. Previously the University had tried to make arrangements with Princeton, but in this case the difference in the systems of curriculum prevented a fair match...
...supplement, not replace the old system of collegiate education. To merely recognizes the fact that it should not exclude the arts but join with them in reducing collegiate thought to a mean of common sense. Any sentimental traditions, no matter how venerable, that exclude from the college curriculum, all but scholastic abstractions untainted by the leprous touch of realism, should never stand in the way of such additions as this...
Last week Dr. Cooper made his first official appearance and speech, at the opening of the meeting in Cleveland of the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence. Vigorously he proposed for State universities the Johns Hopkins idea of eliminating freshmen and sophomore courses from the curriculum...