Word: junior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Chinese culture has its roots in ancient times," Dr. Hornbeck said, "and government in China has always been a matter of persons. Confucius laid down the fundamentals of human conduct in precepts for the relation between ruler and the subject, husband and wife, parent and child, senior and junior, friend and friend...
...college curriculum should be divided into two parts. The freshman and sophomore years should form a junior college and lead to the regular baccalaureate degree, and the senior college, composed of the junior and senior years, should lead to a Master's degree." Thus Professor Mather of Princeton in an article in The Educational Review states his proposition for a more efficient recasting of a university education. "The curriculum of the junior college is prescribed, comprising surveys of all the main branches of knowledge, and affording that minimum of information which may reasonably be expected of a liberally educated...
...purpose, and with their passage comes a feeling of futility, of irresponsible adolescence too long prolonged. Destined eventually for business, he sees the time of his apprenticeship, the time when he can earn enough to marry, pushed too far ahead by years of practical inaction. For him the junior college of Professor Mather is designed...
...European custom, a baccalaureate degree. And the high standards of such segregation would allow in the scholarship, free from extra-curricular activity, in the senior college would justify the granting of a degree of Master of Arts to its graduate. The baccalaureate given to graduates from Professor Mather's junior college, however, could not compare with the same degree given in the leading universities now. Although it would give a concert value to the two lower degrees, and shorten the road to that of Doctor of Philosophy, this is the less desirable feature of the plan...
...such a junior course could be operated in conjunction with the mature work of four years in the colleges instead of as a link in it, the plan seems a most happy provision for the gentle men who are not scholars but desire to be collegians. The present progressive, standard-raising movements are fast accepting the principles which Professor Mather propounds for his senior college; yet they leave no place for the men in question, and their right to a humanistic education. The experimental endowment of such a two year course in some one of the larger universities would...