Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale has a difficulty, to face which is not peculiarly her own in that she is glutted with students. And in that aspect above all lies interest for the Harvard undergraduate. For those who would oppose change of any kind either in curriculum, in choice of entrants, in form or function of the University too little realize how very necessary it is that the huge numbers who now want and can get an education must be assimilated into the life of the University Any methods which best assists in such assimilation must not have the abrupt disregard of those...
Other speakers will be Professor Wilbur Urban, President of the American Philosophical Association, on "Undergraduate Values"; Professor Leon B. Richardson, author of "A Study of the Liberal College", on "Curriculum Reform"; and Lewis Fox, President of the National Student Federation of America, on "Relations between the Federation and the Collegiate Press...
Miss Anne Riggs, Vassar '27, has written the following article especially for the Crimson. Miss Riggs is chairman of the Student Curriculum Committee at Vassar and the following review was submitted to the President, H. N. MacCracken. It is notable that the undergraduate body at Vassar has always been more closely in touch with the administration of the college than has previously been the case at Harvard...
...question proposed for the last of the Open Forums: How far should students control educational Policy? is one which other colleges have in recent years tackled with more or less success and by more or less commendable methods. The survey of our own Students Curriculum Committee has already led to changes in the plan of courses, while at Dartmouth last year, students carried on a careful investigation of the curriculum and suggested wide changes many of which were adopted. Contrast with this the rather undignified symposium of courses published last fall by the Harvard CRIMSON in which each course...
...important to remember in any student attempt to control or change educational methods that attention must be directed to the curriculum itself, not to its interpreters...