Word: prospectus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, April 6.The charges of intellectual stagnation at Yale due to abnormal interest in athletics, are again proven absolutely false. The prospectus of elective courses for the next year shows a remarkable educational advance in the innovations and additions to Yale's curriculum. History, Political Economy and English are the three most popular branches of study here, and the Faculty has shown a full appreciation of this fact. In history there are four additional electives added, one of which - Ancient Oriental History - is believed to be the only course of its kind offered at an American College. In Economics...
...prospectus of elective courses offered to the junior and senior classes during the college year, 1894-5, at Yale appeared yesterday. Its contents and arrangement differ materially from those of former years. In future the junior classes will select not less than fifteen and not more than eighteen hours of elective work per week. In the year following they will select for their senior studies a number of hours per week which, in addition to those chosen and passed without conditions at the end of junior year, will bring the total number up to thirty hours. The class...
...hoped this year to put the meeting on a paying basis and each club repcesented will be given about 200 tickets or dispose of. The tickets and a prospectus will be ready early in December...
...prospectus of courses for 1893-4 at Yale has just been completed. Its most noticeable feature is the diminished number of required courses, accompanied by an increase in the number of electives. The whole number of courses is 147, against 128 during the present year. The chief increase is in Physics, there being seven new courses offered. By the new plan sophomores are to be offered six courses from which they shall elect five...
...desire again to call attention to the new course in physical training, just established in the Lawrence Scientific School. A short description of the course has already appeared in the CRIMSON and a more detailed one may be found in the prospectus of the course. Its object is to fit men to be competent athletic instructors in schools, hospitals, the army, the navy, etc. Heretofore such instructing has been done mostly by men who are merely athletes. The course proposes to add brains to muscle, and make these athletes competent medical men or athletic subjects. Men with these qualifications...