Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale's House Plan, like Harvard's, like President Wilson's, aims at what every one thinks a college should be: a place where professors and students can study together, enjoy a cultured academic life. Yale's new colleges, in conjunction with recent curricular changes will permit able students to do specialized work, free from cut-&-dried restrictions. They will pursue required college courses (the new divisions will make no change in these). After freshman year (which will have as heretofore its own dean and dormitories), the student will meet his new master and fellows. Theory is that contact with...
...Model League of Nations Assembly, whose meetings in Wellesley came to a close Saturday, is as interesting a method for gaining a knowledge of international problems as can be discovered among extra-curricular activities. It has the double advantage over objective study of at once submitting all conclusions to the harsh light of public debate and at the same time providing the possibility of a broad view on all subjects by the presentation of a large variety of arguments...
...voice their criticisms of Harvard College, based on their years of experience, in the columns of the CRIMSON. Any criticism, favorable or unfavorable, ranging from the most obscure detail to the general theory of Harvard education, is solicited, the House Plan, divisional examinations, tutorial system, examinations in general, extra-curricular activities, the CRIMSON included, being merely some of the suggested subjects...
...Chemistry due to the necessity of spending his afternoons in the laboratory has isolated him to a certain degree from the rest, of the University. As a result, either his work suffers in order to allow him to enjoy the athletic and social advantages to be gained in extra curricular activity, or he neglects this side of college life in favor of his laboratory work...
...extra-curricular activity presented something new, something that had a place of its own in the scheme of things, there might be some excuse for the existence of so much ponderous organization. But as it stands today this energy-consuming phenomenon is just a copy of the one outside. If the student cannot resist the lure of the committee, the rotary and the ballot box he might at least wait until he gets to a place where his progress will mean something. CornellSun...