Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the fourth time in succession Harvard holds its annual Commencement in the midst of war. For the fourth time our pledge to assist the government with all the resources of the University takes precedence over our normal academic duties. So we shall continue until the war is won. For...
A casual reader may easily miss an important point if ht fails to realize that the Committee was not only considering the problem for nearly three years, but spent the equivalent of many weeks of eight-hour working days in its investigations and deliberations. The assistance of numerous collaborators of...
Such in brief is my report on the academic year which ends this afternoon. Some of you with grave responsibility for war and postwar affairs heavy on your shoulders may feel that I have been speaking of relatively trivial academic matters. If so, I beg to differ. Universal education is...
Labeled as the "core curriculum" the seven required courses belong to no particular academic field but cut diagonally across departmental lines.
In addition to this effort to integrate college work, the core curriculum aims at linking undergraduate work with practical affairs. "In our effort to preserve our scholarly detachment," say the Colgate educators, "we sometimes represent too completely the approaches of our academic discipines; we carry over to elementary work the...