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A TRUE estimate of the position of psychology in the curriculum of American universities can hardly be formed without a brief survey of the general system of education which prevails there. In earlier years, one need hardly say, the training was far narrower and less liberal than it is now. The candidate for the B.A. degree had his educational career as carefully prescribed for him as if he were still at school, and he had little or no opportunity to deviate from it. At the present day, the various universities of the United States offer every gradation between relatively elective and relatively non-elective systems, of study. In most universities the undergraduate will find his course of work strictly defined during at least his first or freshman year. Little by little, however, the elective is gradually replacing the non-elective system. Quite recently, Harvard, for example, determined to allow a very considerable measure of optional subjects, from which the student has to make his choice from the moment he is admitted to the university.
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The Teaching of Psychology in Universities of the United States 1 . Nature 68, 425–426 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068425a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/068425a0