Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a system should at least be worth trying. It is open to considerable argument whether from a strictly curricular standpoint most undergraduates would gain thereby. On its social aspect, however, the plan has a certain appeal. Each college might act as an antidote for the more unfortunate features of the other. A better balanced product might very possibly result...
Vacations are at best difficult to plan when a certain amount of curricular days must be included in the University calendar, but a three or four day shortening of the Reading Period which is now almost universally taken by the more liberal of the student body certainly would not curtail the amount of work which would be accomplished at that time. The majority of the reading assignments are with a little application easily completed within the allotted time and the subtraction of three or four days should cause no suffering, and might easily add to the pleasure of the holiday...
...also because of statistical proof that entrance examinations are not a very accurate prediction of college success, important modifications are being made in entrance requirements and methods. A strong influence for this change is recognition of the fact that the examinations have largely controlled and inhibited changes in the curricular of secondary schools...
That these attacks are deserved is only evident; American education is in a parlous state indeed. Getting a really thorough training in a high school has become extremely difficult for the student, encumbered as he is with extra-curricular activities and business and vocational courses. While no one would advocate a return to Jesuitical methods, which make a wearing drudgery out of school, it is surely plain that the swing to the opposite extreme has been excessive. Education in the humanistic sense has become an anachronism in the American school. The chief reason for this state of affairs must rest...
...many fields will outline briefly in limited talks the nature of the activities which they represent. Presidents of the CRIMSON, Advocate, Lampoon, Glee Club, Instrumental Clubs, and Phillips Brooks House Association will speak. The purpose of the meeting is to offer Freshmen an opportunity to become familiar with extra-curricular activities in which they may be interested...