Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is particularly interesting to Harvard men is that many of its thrusts apply here. Removal of every possible curricular restriction, elimination of unintelligent extra-curricular activities, the obligation of political interest--all--are constantly the goals of those who seek a more liberal and intelligent Harvard. That the College should be the "raison d'être" of the whole University is the proposition that has bound thousands together in opposition to the vocational preeminence of the graduate schools...
...Removal, in Yale College, of practically all curricular restriction after Sophomore year:--A very great extension of the honors courses so that instead of depending purely on grades, this opportunity would follow normally satisfactory work during the first two years and be dependent on the volition of the student and the opinion and council of his instructor, i. e. No man should be barred from honors in English because he pulled down his average to bare passing by sixties in Mathematics and Science...
...Less unintelligent extra-curricular activities, and less participation in the extra-curricular for mere name and glory rather than interest: Unnecessary work which tests nothing but submissive endurance should be removed in so far as it is possible from managerial and publication competitions. We will consistently oppose such tendency as may exist to honor a man for the positions he holds rather than for what...
Assuming this analysis to be true, the problem resolves itself practically into a question, not of reorganizing the educational system, but rather of reforming the educational attitude. At present the average college student probably feels justified in bluffing curricular work in order to devote his time and effort to outside activities. If intellectual interests, which so often seem subordinate in American colleges, are reinspired, the occasion for and the practice of bluffing will cease. Until then the bluff of "pencil point knowledge" will appear the acme of shrewdness to the sophisticated undergraduate...
...present, patrons of Memorial must be satisfied with only an occasional extra-curricular visitor. And here again is a difficulty. She who first dares cross the threshold, like the man that ate the first oyster, will be the ultimate in concentrated courage. To face that unmasked battery of six hundred eyes will be no easy task. Mr. Meade may throw open his doors to ladies, But to get them to attend in paying numbers will be, as the Prophet observed, something else again...