Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This pageant of intense undergraduate activity has developed to clash with the older traditions of Harvard--the quiet that lingers in the Yard and the contemplative detachment of "Tory Row." And there is evidence that the leisurely quest for the constructive relaxation of extra-curricular activities has been transformed into an intense drive for the kind of competence that has always been held more characteristic of "the business world...
...issue was stated clearly in a recent speech to an Alumni group by Dean Bundy. "I think the average college man," he said, "works harder than we did.... I think there is a tendency also to be more nearly professional in the approach to particular extra-curricular interests. The CRIMSON is better than it used to be -- I even think our present football teams would beat yours, if we could somehow match them across the years. A similar concern for near-professional standards is evident in activities as widely different as the Hasty Pudding show and the Latin Oration...
...what many undergraduates feel is an unfortunate flaw in Harvard's art program--that little attention is paid to problems of the creative artist. The prevailing sentiment at Fogg was perhaps best expressed by Professor Rosenberg when he announced that creativity in the fine arts program is totally "extra-curricular," opposing it to the "proper guidance" which the department now offers. It is precisely this point of view which has driven many would-be art majors into a substitute field such as Architectural Sciences, which offers some training in graphic technique...
While speculations and schemes for curricular revolution are rising around the University, the Program of Advanced Standing is emerging from its experimental phase and is settling into a regular and respected role in the College's academic system...
...very name course reduction assumes somewhat of a negative aspect. It is the college's way of groping toward the hazy ideal of independent study. Its presence in the curriculum, however, might conceivably act as a crutch in defending the present general system against new curricular suggestions. If exceptions to the present rules can be made, it might be argued that maybe there is no need to reconsider the rules themselves. As it stands now, then, the Program of Advanced Standing is a necessary and valuable adjunct to the present course system, but it is no prelude to any basic...