Word: curricula
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...moderations," at the end of the first or the beginning of the second year. The classics can now all be got rid of before entering the university, leaving the student free, as at Harvard now, to specialize as much as he pleases. The great public schools are altering their curricula so as not only to finish the classical part of the education, but supply elementary instruction in the principal sciences. Thus one after another the old ideas give way to the new, and the fossils are put on the shelves where no longer as models, but as objects of wonder...
...ascribed to the low standard of scholarship in the preparatory schools. If Western colleges could for awhile forget their more immediate interests in a higher consideration of the future; if they could, ignoring the present, look to the future for the reward of a progressive advance in their curricula; if, neglecting the standards of the preparatory schools, they would demand a higher order of work for admission to their doors, and by so doing force the preparatory schools to elevate the character of their work, we would hear less comparisons between our various colleges and find that the work...
...Nassau Lit remarks editorially how college opinion is against the "Poor Poet Chap," and regrets that more attention is not given to poetry in college curricula. Following is an extract from the discussion...
Prof. Huxley of the Eton corporation in his evidence before the Select Committee on Education, Science, and Art of last year, thus pronounced his opinion on the present curricula of public schools: "I do not disguise my conviction that the whole theory on which our present educational system is based, is wrong from top to bottom; that the subjects which are now put down as essential, and on which the most stress is laid, are luxuries, so to speak; and that those which are regarded as comparatively unessential, and as luxurious are essentials. For example, it is perfectly possible under...
...other hand, realize that an animated sympathy with Greek, - such a sympathy as must come from something more than routine work, is of vital importance? It is true, that of late years there has been considerable doubt in some colleges, as to the advisability of retaining Greek in their curricula. The Greek department of Harvard, in determining to have Greek readings throughout the collegiate year, seem to have taken the wisest method possible of influencing the discussion in their favor. In no fairer or more manly way could they arouse real and effective interest in Greek, than by placing before...