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...basic alterations in the graduate study curricula, the Dean has repeatedly asserted his conviction that the Ph.D. is a non-professional degree, and therefore "is bound to deny exact definition in terms of time," or courses of study. All his tendered changes are qualitative...
...training as a legitimate field of study. No one at Harvard wants a situation comparable to that of most American universities where there are a multitude of speech courses and an undergraduate major in the subject. But the study of speech could be a beneficial part of many undergraduates' curricula. Courses should be offered in the techniques of group problem-solving, dramatic interpretation, the analysis of argument, mass persuasion, and rhetorical theory...
...careful study by committees of the Faculty. The groups were looking for a new curriculum that would provoke increased undergraduate interest. Though this change is, of course, not felt directly in the Summer School, it is representative of a growing desire in many American universities to alter their curricula in a similar manner...
...cities, however, the curricula are generally excellent. These schools offer a broad selection of courses, equalling in scope many passable northern school systems. Along with the traditional offering of physics, chemistry, trigonometry, and solid geometry, Southern urban schools are now introducing physiology, advanced mathematics, German, and geology into their programs. The basic requirements in urban schools are similar to their northern counterparts--four years of English, three of math, two of science and social studies--and college-bound students take a great many more than these...
Harvard, as Paul H. Buck has said, is a "university college," where interplay between the college and graduate school curricula is fairly unique. Columbia, for example, has two separate faculties, and there is little opportunity to utilize both. The Columbia College register can offer juniors and seniors only seminar groups which are "conducted like their graduate prototypes...