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...repents it the rest of the year. The proposal that the University send out men to speak at the various nearby schools and for those at a distance publish an enlarged booklet on the Freshman courses, hits a snag when one considers the number of variations of secondary curricula with which such a circuit rider would have to familiarize himself...
...classics. In some quarters, notably in England, this belief has defied all the educational developments of the twentieth century. But there are few at Harvard, outside of the classicists themselves, who would still hold that Latin and Greek should be accorded a place of special privilege in the curricula of the secondary schools...
...however, that Harvard has had any greater success with the old admissions criteria than have other colleges. Recent surveys have revealed a disquieting discrepancy between grades on entrance examinations and subsequent records. No admissions criteria can be wholly successful which allow an opportunity for intensive cramming by schools whose curricula are devised for the sole purpose of shoving dull students past the artificial barrier between the preparatory school and the college...
...trend is clearly toward the education of lawyers in the tradition of the Continent by adopting in some measure the curricula of its law schools which are broad enough to train sociologists and political scientists as well as lawyers. In thus seeking to adapt its instruction to the necessities of the age, the Yale Law School evidences a flexibility of program which should aid its development in the future. It is a process the parent institution in Cambridge might do well to watch...
...courses have been added to the curricula of almost all the graduate schools it was revealed in an official announcement from--University Hall recently. Most notable of all is a complete reorganization that has gone into effect at the School of Architecture, which has broadened its training to include instruction in functional design, city planning, and other phases of construction and engineering closely allied to modern architecture...