Yale College : an educational history, 1871-1921 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

The days of Porter and Dwight : Yale college in the nineties

The Yale system

College or university : Yale university beings ; The conservatism of Noah Porter

The elective struggle : The old course of instruction ; The optionals begin: 1876-83 ; The battle of 1884: upper-class electives

Timothy Dwight

The consulship of Hadley : First lay president

The government of the faculty

The age of barons

Tyrannosaurus superbus

Rebuilding the course of study : A new and promising line

Farewell to Greek

Claimants to the curriculum : The proposed three-year B.A. ; The anticipation of courses ; The professors invade the curriculum ; The combined programs

Discontent, investigation, and reform

Retrospect: a new system on old principles

The college, the university, and the public : Teacher and teaching

The curriculum again : The reforms of 1908 and 1911

Honors at Yale : Appointments and special honors ; Agitation for reform ; The faculty's solution

A literary Renaissance ; College-sheriff-university : The proposal of a third college

College and nation: the entrance problem : The college entrance examination board ; The problem of the certificate system ; Working your way through college

The return to required studies

War and reorganization : American higher education and war

Yale and the guns : Neutrality and preparedness ; Hadley and the artillery batteries ; Military instruction 1916-17 ; The college at war

The great reorganization

Reconstruction : The problem of Latin ; The P.h. B. degree ; The problem of admissions

The common freshman year

The last years under Hadley

Appendixes : Tables : Rectors and presidents ; Table of dates, 1701-1871 ; The old course of instruction, 1875-76 ; Course of instruction with optionals, 1876-77 ; Course of instruction with electives, 1885-77 ; The course of instruction under Dwight, 1894-99 ; Increase of upper-class elective offerings ; "Classified" electives, 1903-03 ; Elections under the new system, 1902-03 ; Regulated electives: the second phase, 1903-08 ; Presentation of Greek for entrance ; Subject choices by freshmen, 1903-19 ; Prior education of Yale law school students : Prior education of Yale medical school students ; Prior education of Yale divinity school students ; Where Yale undergraduates took their law degrees ; Where Yale undergraduates took their medical degrees. Yale college and Sheffield scientific school freshman enrollments, 1859-1937 : Yale college and Harvard freshman enrollments, 1859, with Yale's common freshman year ; Harvard college and Lawrence scientific school freshman enrollments, 1859-1937 ; Yale, Harvard, and Princeton freshman enrollments, 1859-1937. Permanent officers of Yale college: losses, new appointments, and promotions ; Group programs for lowerclassmen, 1911-14 ; Special honors awards, 1886-1916 ; Special honors theses, 1886-91, 1903-16 ; The universities and the Pulitzer prizes, 1917-50 ; Proposed R.O.T.C. course in field artillery, 1918