Word: syllabuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present method of performing this difficult maneuver, although in many ways a remarkably successful compromise, is still open to criticism on several fronts; the most conspicuous of these weakness now consists in the extraordinary length of the program of instruction. The syllabus of the material covered consists of a list of topics in the fields of analytic geometry, trigonometry, and differential and integral calculus, embracing a great mass of fundamental mathematical learning, and including many radically different concepts. Moreover, in the customary presentation the work leaps with disconcerting rapidity from analytic geometry to calculus, with a fairly long digression...
...plan often followed in teaching such courses in other colleges bears consideration. The student of history is furnished, not with a syllabus measuring off pages in a text book that the lecturer may intone "Read your Fishah, gentlemen, read your Fishah!" but with a cursory outline of the course, and a general bibliography. Armed with these the industrious are expected to disinter for themselves the body and substance of the subject; the less able and the lazy perish by the wayside, for cramming is almost impossible. This is the method by which all real study is accomplished...
Changes in reading assignments, map questions, and choices of collateral reading feature the 1932 schedule of History 1 in the new syllabus. Besides revisions in the actual essential weekly assignments from the familiar historians used for many years, as the books themselves testify, several of the historical works are hardly to be used at all this year, and other books substituted...
...would lead to greater prominence in Her service. But the young man never advanced in rank handicapped as he was by a stammer which prevented him from reading sermon. Disappointed he turned again to his first work, and in the same year printed an ambitious little volume called "A Syllabus of Plane Allgebraical Geometry." This created but little stir in the pleasant, close cropped countrysides of England, so a year later the literary world was the richer by a book on the "Formulae of Plane Trigonometry" which reached a public scarcely larger. At last in disgust this author changed...
Francis Bacon took all knowledge to be his province, but though his ambition was large his achievement was a little provincial. Herbert George Wells, in spite of all temptations to remain an English novelist, has gone Bacon one better. Wells's syllabus of knowledge, begun with The Outline of History, continued in The Science of Life, is now concluded (he says) in The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. Disagreeing with Poet Keats.† Wells considers that all you need to know will be found under the heads of history, biology, economics...