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Caption: Booklet - Kinley Speech Cirrculum and Consequences (1924)
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i?0 NATIONAL ALSBOO] LTION 01 offshoot. Without going away from borne for any horrible example, 1 mav illustrate whal I mean by pointing out that about orty years ago the University of Illinois offered curricula in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, mining engine ring, and architecture. It now announces fifteen four-year curricula in engineering. The College of Commerce, which existed only in name some forty years ago, offers, I believe, thirteen different four-year curricula. Similar illustrations might be given of tie increase in the number of four-year programs of study offer I in very university. These are not all new so far as their names are concerned. The University of Illinois and others had their chools of commerce, domestic science, chemistry, journalism, and their departments of agricultural engineering, agricultural architecture, r u r a l economy (now called agricultural economics), rural law, and so forth, certainly as long as forty years ago. Although ome of the old names have been revived they generally imply a very different thing from what they implied in the earlier years of which I am speaking. T h e multiplication of curricula is paralleled with multiplication of departments.. W e were content once, and our contentment was then educationally justifiable, with a department that had oversight of political science, of physical science, and so forth. Now we seem hardly respectable unless we have a department of political science, with possibly a separate department of public administration; a department of economics, with perhaps a department of agricultural economics; a department of sociology, and perhaps a dej rtment of finance; to say nothing of the economics of business organization and procedure, accountancy, business law, etc. We must provide "Business" English and "German" for Engineers, We inn-! mark out separate programs for the prospective electrical Dgin( r, mechanical engineer, and other kinds of engineers; for the agricultural journalist and for his metropolitan kin. We no long r, in a gei •, train chemists. W e train industrial chemists, ph; iological chemists, and other varieties. The time was, when one program, Or tWO, Or three, Sufficed; when one department cov- red tie whole scientific field implied by its name. • ub M-rles a n d varieties. Is'ow, we have In short, the field of education, as represented by th programs -f study of the universities and colleges, has not only become g, itly i nded, by the addition of new subjects and the splitting ,,j, of old OneiJ but al - ban become more 'inple\ hrcai of th
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