Administration of the College Curriculum Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...of courses of vocational trend; while others call the culture courses nothing but soft, wishy-washy excuses for sloth, indifference, neglect, and ill-concealed ridicule of the study and its teacher. Some critics hold that the one thing necessary is to secure concentration of each student's work in some department, while others enact complicated rules to enforce the scattering of electives among various departments. And thus it goes. So great is the confusion of current discussions concerning the American college that an old negro preacher seems unwittingly to have summed it up when he said, "Education am de grand palladium ob our liberties and de pandemonium ob our civilization." One might present an endless confusion of opinions as to what the college course should he; but altogether they would demonstrate finally only one important truth, namely, that nobody knows what the American college course should be. It is needless to tarry long with individual opinions on this subject. The resultants of thousands of such opinions can be seen at a glance in tables showing the present requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in American colleges. Those who have examined many college catalogs can readily overlook any minor inaccuracies o these tables. Frequently the promise of the catalog is not the performance of the college, and sometimes the language of college publications is obscure or contradictory. Certainly there are no errors of any consequence for the purposes of this study. Table I indicates the subjects required for the A. B. degree in twenty-nine state universities. The unit used is the year-hour, --one hour per week for one academic year. The most striking fact exhibited by the table is the total want of accepted...