Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...light when they were undergraduates; but after all it is the undergraduate who can profit personally by the new appeal for a fundamental change in the attitude of the average undergraduate toward his college work. In the last generation the opportunities for study in Harvard were enormously multiplied; the curriculum was enriched by so many courses taught in such enlightening ways that it was believed that the attraction of this new program with its elective system would be such that all that would be necessary would be to open the doors to the impatient students without any restrictions...
...Clubs. At Albany they will join the Harvard Club of New York. The party will arrive in Cleveland tomorrow morning. President Lowell will be among the members present. He will speak, at the business meeting at the Hotel Hollenden tomorrow afternoon, on the tendency of changes in the College curriculum...
...year everything scholastic is in a state of disorganization. The time for selection is manifestly now, when the subject-matter and the scope of the various courses may be fairly observed and compared. Employed with foresight, attendance at sample lectures is an admirable way of deciding on one's curriculum. Used in the midst of the confusion of opening, however, it becomes misleading and defeats the possibility of accurate decision. By attending the lectures now, men still in doubt about their future courses will render a service to the Faculty by enabling the general machinery to be in running order...
...article of the report is that devoted to the choice of electives. The purpose of the modifications of the elective system are, as stated by President Lowell in the report, to require every student to know a little of everything and something well, and to plan his whole College curriculum seriously...
...substance complete. The object to be attained was two-fold: first, to require every student to make a choice of electives that will secure a systematic education, based on the principle of knowing a little of everything and something well; second, to make the student plan his college curriculum seriously, and plan it as a whole. This is pre-supposed by the theory of the elective system, but, in fact, it is by no means always done, as is shown by the very large number of changes of electives, and often radical changes, made in the first few weeks...