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Curriculum   /kərˈɪkjələm/   Listen
noun
Curriculum  n.  (pl. E. curriculums, L. curricula)  
1.
A race course; a place for running.
2.
A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.





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"Curriculum" Quotes from Famous Books



... Principal, came often to the Fifth Reader room. He came for Language Lessons. Mr. Bryan told them he had himself introduced the Course in Language into the School Curriculum. ...
— Emmy Lou - Her Book and Heart • George Madden Martin
... gendarmes, who accompany the prisoners. You can scarcely recall anything but sad figures there. There are the parents or friends of the accused, the witnesses, the detectives. In this gallery, far from the sight of men, the judicial curriculum is ...
— The Widow Lerouge - The Lerouge Case • Emile Gaboriau
... comes straight from a council school where domestic economy had no place in the curriculum, and from a home in name only. Such an one is usually slatternly and careless in all her ways, has no idea of personal cleanliness, and regards her "mistress" as, more or less, her natural enemy! She is "in service" only under compulsion, and envies those of her schoolmates ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various
... scholarship. I believe that the general American tendency is to insist less than we do on sheer mental discipline for its own sake, whether in classics or mathematics, to allow the student a wider latitude of choice, and to enable him to specialise at an earlier point in his curriculum upon the studies he most affects, or which are most likely to be directly useful to him in practical life. Thus the American universities, probably, do not turn out many men who can "read Plato with their feet on the hob," but many ...
— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer
... drawing-room. Consider, for example, the following two letters, illustrating the correct and incorrect method in which two young college men should correspond, and tell me if there is not some place in our college curriculum ...
— Perfect Behavior - A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises • Donald Ogden Stewart


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