Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have in America the largest public school system on earth, the most expensive college buildings, the most extensive curriculum, but nowhere else is education so pointless and aimless, so blind to its objectives, so indifferent to any specific outcome as in America...
Catering to the mob or to the individual; which course shall the college curriculum pursue? John Hurd, Jr., of the English department, adds more dry tinder to the fire of the issue in an article in The Intercollegiate for November, in which he rudely destroys the cherished tradition of Oxford as an educational millenium...
...American secondary school", he said, "is far more flexible than any of the secondary schools in either England. France, or Germany, and this feature is one of the unique distinctions between American and European secondary schools." The curriculum of the typical French secondary school limits the students to a certain definite course, he said, and they stvive to give the pupils a coherent education by requiring him to take the same courses repeatedly. "The American system," he continued, "gives the student a coherent educational training by making his school work interesting and informing...
...years of its infancy in the Classical Library, carries on the torch of culture. And I write with more feeling because not only the truth about Harvard has been exposed, but also about myself. For the five courses in Greek which the writer pointed out as constituting the curriculum at Harvard constitutes at the same time my sole instruction in that department as an undergraduate. The Yale News was probably not aware of the fast that this frugal array of courses, combined with a corresponding number of Latin courses, and a couple of courses in ancient history, and the necessary...
...read in yesterday's CRIMSON under the heading of "The Press" a clipping casting the reproach of crescent materialism upon what is in a modest sort of way the clay, so to speak, for the Vagabond's statue, the merchandise, if you must, of his business--namely, the Harvard curriculum. The writer of the clipping raised, figuratively speaking, his hands in well simulated horror at the thought that whereas the University "has a gigantic new Business School" it offers only 5 courses in Greek, while Princeton and Yale take their places on the uppermost rungs of the intellectual ladder giving...