Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That this condition has at last been faced and at least partially solved by the English Department is a matter of no mean moment in the development of the Harvard curriculum. The abolition of the useless anticipatory examination and the lifting of the English. A requirement for all those who have passed the comprehensive entrance examination with a grade of 70 or above are certainly steps in the right direction...
English A, the prescribed course for Freshmen, has long been one of the largest and most famous courses in the College curriculum. Next year, under the new regulations, its membership is expected to diminish by over one third, which will in many ways change the nature of the course...
...less extent behind the attitude of some undergraduates toward the college. It is the same psychology which makes the mention of the college in the metropolitan newspapers depend in nine cases out of ten upon athletic achievement. Opposed to it is the increasing undergraduate interest in the curriculum, in educational experiments, in the expression of student opinion, in the amazing revival of intercollegiate debating in the last few years, in literary, dramatic and journalistic achievement...
...second point of importance in the new general division is the requirement, necessarily couched in broad terms, for "especially wide reading". If properly carried into effect this provision will mean greater emphasis on the tutorial work; and correspondingly less on course marks. Such is the trend of the curriculum at Harvard; away from this artificial division of knowledge into the compartments of various courses and toward greater individual work and research under the general guidance of tutors. Every such requirement as that referred to above, every further limitation upon the number of courses required for a degree with distinction, like...
...first sight the statement from President Neilson of Smith that the curriculum will be altered next year to allow much greater freedom to Freshmen and Sophomores seems to bear great significance as contrary to the strong trend away from free election and toward required general knowledge for first and second year men in the American colleges and universities today. A closer examination of just what this greater freedom means, however, immediately lends a different interpretation to the news...