Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prep school football is just another extra-curricular activity to the authorities who pick candidates for admission and scholarships at Harvard, according to Miss Anne MacDonald, assistant to the Chairman of the Committee on Admission, and Henry Chauncey, Assistant Dean in charge of Scholarships...
...reaction against this educational specialization in American universities, Chicago and Columbia have set up survey courses designed to insert a minimum "common content" into the curriculum, and at St. John's College in Maryland the hundred-best-books course has been instituted. At Harvard the reversion to a curricular common denominator has had only faint beginnings. Two years ago a Student Council committee urged "the restoration of a liberal education at Harvard." Most striking proposal of their lengthy report was the suggestion that five "introductory area courses"--two in the humanities, two in the sciences, and one in the social...
...board administers the extra-curricular law club system in the School and is a liaison body between the faculty and the students. It aids in the formation of the law clubs, to which most of the students belong, and in the management of the moot court cases argued by the student clubs...
...League has called for student participation in building a strong Army, apparently through some sort of extra-curricular military training. Perhaps it envisions another Harvard Regiment. It speaks of asking the War Department for "cooperation." Does it recognize the changed demands of modern mechanized armies, or is it asking, as a group of university-trained men, for special favors...
First of all a reading list might be drawn up, and a prize offered for the paper best discussing some aspect of Pan-American relations. Yet the principal attraction for extra-curricular work of this sort lies in informal lectures or discussion groups under authoritative speakers. Unlike the ill-fated American Civilization Plan, which had to compete with regular classes in U. S. history and literature, a Pan-American program would enjoy a virtual monopoly in its field. Little doubt exists that it would be generously supported, provided only that a suitable hour--probably at bi-weekly intervals...