现代大学英语 第三版 精读 2

• dora13

  2014-01-20
  There was a time when even the faculty knew what made a college. From the time the university tradition took form in the Renaissance, until the time the faculty committees were first heard to discuss “Education for Modern Living,” a professor could afford to be downright about the classics, philosophy, history, theology, mathematics, the sciences, and language study. Whether the student meant to be a teacher, preacher, doctor, lawyer, or scientist, the core of his training was essentially the same.Within the last fifty years, however, colleges have been adding new courses at a fantastic rate. Consult a college’s catalog for the academic year 1900-1901 and then consult one for 1950-1951. You will find that where fifty courses were offered in the earlier catalogue, two hundred and fifty ar...