Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberal arts college finds itself frustrated, its own indecision about its proper function is to blame. Should it merely broaden the student's cultural background, or should it give him a thorough training in a special field? The liberal arts college does not know; it attempts both and succeeds in neither...
...succeed in widening the pigeon-hole horizons of its undergraduates. The modern language requirement should be pushed off onto the prep schools entirely, and pressure should be brought on those schools to prepare their fledglings more fully for the flight into Higher Learning. In addition, Harvard can broaden the scope of its own introductory courses, in order to make them less of a "closed shop" for concentrators in the field. It can, finally, require the choice of at least one course in each area. Realistic changes like these will meet the area plan halfway. Together they will produce a healthy...
...most Freshmen. Since English A has been made a full - credit course, and Freshmen taking it have been required to take only four, instead of five, courses, the average Freshman has only two courses for tentative exploration. With some success, the Freshman advisers last Fall persuaded Freshmen to broaden out by taking five courses; but a later check-up showed that most Yardlings had dropped the extra course in the November Hour panic...
...move to broaden distribution of courses, the Board of Freshman. Advisers recently passed a motion to urge every student to include a course during the first two years in each of the three broad areas of the Humanities, Social Studies, and Natural Sciences...