Word: curricula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become somewhat of a convention among professors who are apostles of the older order in education to adopt an attitude of well-bred superiority whenever mention is made of introducing vocational subjects into college curricula. Consequently it is refreshing to hear a new voice crying in the wilderness. Professor Edman of Columbia in the October "Century" maintains that the citadel from which the cultured professors sneer at their more practical-minded brethren is itself far from impregnable. He charges that these scholars are lecturing as if their classes were all composed of independently wealthy youths being fitted for sinecure positions...
That American college men are in a veritable state of bondage was the theme of a recent address by Dr. Leroy Burton, president of the University of Michigan. The impossibility of any self-determination in the matter of curricula prevents the student with initiative and capable faculties reaching the intellectual heights he might attain if given free reign. Dr. Burton would give the upperclassman freedom from the group course restrictions and would allow him to follow the dictates of his own enthusiasm...
...order that the Union may be of more service to the University as a center of extra-curricula activities, the governing board of the Union yesterday announced that at a recent meeting it decided to annual certain rules which limited the use of the Union's rooms to societies of limited Union membership...
Latin and Greek, much to the disgust of the Socialists, have won in France. Léon Bérard, Minister of Public Instruction, has pronounced them compulsory in his new national curricula...
Teaching the young journalism has for some years been part of college curricula. Practical education in the newspaper " game" has become the function of college daily newspapers. There are now 31 of these papers in existence scattered over the country from Los Angeles to Cambridge. They are probably more useful as educational institutions than as news -distributing agencies, for even the long established dailies of Yale, Harvard and Princeton are replete with errors and journalistic faux pas. Among the 31 is the Daily lowan of Iowa University, and that paper, it was announced, has become a member of the Associated...