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...purpose of the Committee's investigation is not to revamp the College curricula, but to determine whether changes are advisable in view of the present emergency...
...York City's school superintendent. For not only in New York but all over the land school children are speaking a strange new language, fazing their elders with terms like wobble pump, advection, burble, troposphere, chandelle, nacelle. A fourth R, preflight training, is now a part of many curricula. Its purpose is to condition school children to take to the air almost as soon as they leave the classroom. Less purposefully, but just as certainly, preflight training will mark an immensurably great divide between the airborne generation of the post-war world and their earth-bound elders...
Chief problem which they have had to solve is the relining of their curricula to the present demand for trained scientists. The broader studies of the skies and earth must be reshaped and focused to the needs of the military...
None of these five departments has made any revisions in its requirements for concentration except the extension of curricula through the summer term. A general flexibility, however, has developed to make graduation possible for men entering the services. The Philosophy Department is permitting one Senior now in the Navy to complete work for his degree in absentia and Classics is allowing students to take divisionals at mid-years or in the summer...
...free U.S. high schools to pursue these objectives, said the commission, colleges must drop their old entrance requirements, adopt new ones that will not prescribe high-school curricula. The commission's proposal: let colleges choose students on the basis of 1) their all-around high-school record, 2) scholastic-aptitude tests, 3) other new tests (such as the commission itself has developed) which measure a candidate's character and abilities instead of his specific knowledge...