Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...providing an opportunity for Catholics to mature and sanctify themselves," Rev. Collins faces several difficulties. As with other religions, both studies and extra-curricular activities draw people away from a more active Catholic life. "Students are not joiners," says Rev. Collins. "They refuse to join because they think they will have to do something. This supposed responsibility would prevent them from acting independently in social or intellectual contexts and so people shy away." Catholics especially may value the freedom at Harvard because many have a comparatively strict background. Moreover, many students think Catholicism sets them apart from their follows. They...
...imaginative program, the project offers students an unusual experience in the theater. But it has a potential beyond that of an extra-curricular activity. Now undergraduates may integrate the intellectual and stylistic content of a play with the actual dramatic production. The vitality and meaning of drama is not two dimensional; an imaginative pedagogical style is only a substitute for a vibrant performance. Combining lectures, reading, and production, the Loeb project will achieve the ideal of a literature course, bringing a play to life in the broadest sense of the word...
...teach the use of these techniques on a very broad scale. Because the new project at the Loeb will teach the art of the theater, will use this art in full scale productions, and will share the basic aims of a literature course, it transcends the usual extra-curricular activity and should, in fact, be considered as a legitimate offering for credit...
...several reasons it was a highly unwelcome innovation. The academic value of such courses is vague. They do not communicate to the student any of the methods of intellectual analysis; they teach practical techniques only, and consequently they begin to merge into the area of hobbies or extra-curricular activities. Undergraduates at Harvard ought not to get academic credit for engaging in hobbies...
...extra-curricular course in college teaching offered by the Committee on Teaching as a Career will be open to undergraduates for the first time this fall, Elliott Perkins '23, professor of History, announced yesterday...