Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite significant. Such an assumption does not seem well-grounded; for the schools which would respond by directing their college prospects to take the courses Harvard demands are probably those schools who now teach the most mathematics anyway. But the rural, Western and Southern schools which offer only a curricular minimum are unlikely to change to meet Harvard's demands. If Harvard should impose a math requirement, it would cut itself off from much good material...
Praising the Student Council for its efforts last year to help Harvard and Radcliffe extra-curricular organizations merge, Leighton commented, "I am always in favor of joint educational activities...
...dual responsibilities of the new post parallel those of Elliot Forbes, professor of Music and director of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society who was appointed last year. Both Faculty members must divide their time between teaching and conducting under graduate extra-curricular activities...
...addition to a "thoroughly alive" course offering, New College will embody another curricular innovation: a month-long midwinter term, when the whole college will join with visiting teachers to study two courses "providing a common intellectual experience." One of these conference-courses will deal with a subject "of central importance in Western culture," the other with a non-Western topic, the subjects changing each year over a four year span. Unfortunately, such a midwinter term could easily become an aimless interlude, devoid of excitment. But, if carefully planned, it could also turn into one of the great attractions...
...Fund for the Advancement of Education, which financed the initial Report, recently announced a grant of $25,000 for three advanced studies: of architecture, financing techniques, and curriculum. The curricular study will look further into the aim of the New College program: "to establish a pattern of independent behavior training in it at the outset...