Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course in photography will soon be added to the curriculum of the Harvard Annex...
President Patton of Princeton has had in mind some very important and radical changes in the college curriculum, but it was not until recently that the details of these changes became public. Hereafter instead of three terms there will be two, with mid-year and final examinations. Another new feature will be the granting of special honors in addition to the general honor now given in the leading general department. The changes are known to meet the approval not only of the Faculty and Trustees, but also of ex-President McCosh. They are as follows...
...Nineteenth Century club will soon publish articles pertaining to the educational curriculum of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia...
...which Dr. Ward delivered on Monday, have aroused no little enthusiasm among those students who were fortunate enough to hear them, and we understand that a movement is on foot among some of the men to petition the faculty for the addition of a course in Anthropology to the curriculum for next year. Whether we have been rightly informed or not in regard to the movement, we wish to express hearty sympathy with such a sentiment, and would encourage those interested to place a petition before the faculty, for in the present list of electives very little knowledge...
...instruction given in the American colleges in 1789 was by no means advanced. We can see how it was with Harvard from the change of curriculum effected in 1787. Up to that time the Latin and Greek provided had consisted of Virgil Cicero's Orations and the Greek Testament. By the changes made in 1787 the students were to read in Latin, Horace, Sallust and Cicero "de Oratore;" and in Greek, Xenophon and Homer. Even this was not a more advanced curriculum than that of the best preparatory schools of the present time. The study of mathematics was probably...