Word: cores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swing to cafeteria-style learning (where students pick & choose what they want to learn) in the days of President Charles W. (Five-Foot Shelf) Eliot. And it was Harvard, under President James Bryant Conant, that in August most clearly denned the swing back-to required courses, a "core curriculum." Colgate was already at it when Harvard's famed report on General Education in a Free Society appeared. Princeton, Yale and a score of other colleges have likewise heralded a new dawn of coherence...
Harvard's "groping for a core subject," said Winspear, "is in reality a groping for a satisfactory synthesis of all [the] reactionary programs of retreat." Winspear generously offered his own idea of a core curriculum: Karl Marx...
Twangy, caustic Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner-in 1941 chief of the Navy war plans division, in 1942 the man who put the Marines ashore on Guadalcanal-put grey, heavy-jowled Admiral Kimmel at the very core of blame...
Like the chicken and the egg, it's hard to decide which came first in making Harvard University--its library or its classes. First or last, the library today is generally recognized as the core of the University. It is this fact which partially accounts for the case with which the new library grant was obtained, as compared to the difficulties experienced in years past...
Everybody's doing it. Harvard plans to abolish the free elective system. Colgate has rebuilt its curriculum around a "core" of seven required courses. In Yale's "Experimental Program," students take prescribed courses for the first two years. The postwar educational models differ somewhat in chromium extras, but in one way all are alike: students will have less chance at the wheel than their immediate predecessors...