Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This list of subjects also sheds some light on an educational question now under discussion-the question of the most natural and most needed additions to the existing programmes of secondary schools. It suggests that in endeavoring to enrich the programmes of secondary schools, and thereby to carry into schools subjects now dealt with by colleges, the selection of the new subjects now dealt with by colleges, should be made from the most elementary and most attractive courses named above. The indication is that English, French, German, History, and Natural Science are the copies which might be most judiciously added...
President Schurman of Cornell has issued the following letter: "I regret to announce that A. Abraham, of Brooklyn, has been defeated in this efforts to enrich Cornell University. Mr. Abraham anthorized me to purchase the late Ernest Renan's great oriental library as a gift to Cornell. His offer was on the point of aceptance when Mme. Calmanne Levy, widow of Renan's publisher, telegraphed that she will present it to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris...
...thus created: to get hold of this thing called charity, philanthropy, social service, most simply and effectively,- to secure a real adaptation between it and the conditions of college life. The new activity must help, not hinder, the people or the causes that we venture to touch, and must enrich, not impair, student life...
Harvard College has been made by the generosity and sacrifice of men of former years; it will continue to develop chiefly as the men who have partaken of its benefits do, in turn, their part to enrich...
...ways of preparing men for college earlier. Firstly, let special classical schools "dip down" into the territory of the grammar schools, take scholars at the age of 12, and prepare them especially for college, (what is now done by the Boston Latin and the Roxbury Latin Schools), or secondly, enrich the cause of education given in the grammar schools...