Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commemoration of William Jennings Bryan and the principles for which he fought, Bryan University is growing in Dayton, Tennessee, the town which recognizes no simian heritage. It is assumed that a University so dedicated will guide its curriculum according to strict fundamentalist standards. The idea, if carried out, contains many possibilities, not only for Dayton's youth, but for all other colleges as well. In this day of scientific specialization and general stiffening of course requirements, the undergraduate is kept entirely too busy. If a firm belief in the principles of fundamentalism were to spread in University circles, college courses...
...Silver-tongued, he has stood for free silver, fundamentalism, and Prohibition. Crucifixion upon a cross of gold is no longer feared; fundamentalism is not generally accepted. Prohibition alone remains to meet the test of history. Fundamentalism, however, is not yet dead, and its potentialities for simplifying the present college curriculum may yet give it a new lease of life...
Considering the comparatively great amount of writing that the Harvard curriculum requires of the average undergraduate, it is somewhat surprising to observe how little opportunity is allowed for the accomplishment of original work outside of composition courses. Although sometimes, unfortunately, the importance of such mechanical devices as footnotes is sadly exaggerated, the greater part of course theses rightly place the emphasis almost entirely upon the tasks of gathering and correlating source material. This principle generally assures a thorough knowledge of his subject on the part of the student. There is, however, a place in the college curriculum for something more...
...from the Milton Fund serves as a reminder of the two-fold purpose of a university. The more obvious purpose and that which receives the majority of attention is the education of students many of whom have no intention of pursuing their studies farther than in their four years curriculum of formal instruction. Perhaps this may be termed the prime reason for the establishment and maintenance of centers of higher learning. Manifestly, it is for this purpose that most of the funds possessed by the university have been donated. The House Plan, the classrooms, the athletic facilities, all are provided...
...present system by abolishing Freshman and Sophomore classes as such by incorporating them as a single entity in a more or less preparatory "collegiate" unit where promotion to more formal educational pursuits of the "university" unit will be based not on credits secured by the completion of a prescribed curriculum, as at present, but by the student's ability to increase his "mental capacity" and by his "reaction to the university's opportunities...