Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College of the City of New York military training is obligatory. Last week the students sent a respectful plea to the Faculty asking to have soldiering removed from the curriculum or at least made an elective. This plea the Faculty decisively rejected. President Sidney E. Mezes sat down and wrote an announcement of his colleagues' decision. One Felix S. Cohen, editor of the undergraduate paper, The Campus, threw the President's announcement into the wastebasket and refused even to mention in his publication the result of the Faculty vote...
...greatest contribution, and practically the only contribution which undergraduates have given to the modern curriculum of education is athletics", declared W. J. Bingham '16, former University track captain, in a speech made at a football dinner at Lawrence High School yesterday, as he launched into what he termed "the most popular sport of early winter, athletic reform...
Discussing the endeavor under way in various colleges of the East to relate football properly to the curriculum, the Cornell Daily Sun asks this question: "Is it the beginning of a general movement, or but a flurry which will die away, leaving the undergraduate world in as complacent enthusiasm about the pigskin as before...
...name some of these institutions: We are familiar with the stand of the Harvard CRIMSON, the Yale News has indorsed the general stand of the CRIMSON, the Princetonian assents to the fact that football bears too much importance in ratio of the importance given the curriculum, the Brown Daily Herald has said, "until some undesired evils, not the fault of the game itself, and which should never be associated with any sport, are removed, football can hardly be regarded as an unmitigated good." Undergraduates representing many colleges at the Wesleyan parley, with the exception of one, in a personal vote...
...policy, but in the courage and independence needed to take a stand on such a matter at all and abundantly manifest in the paper at the present time. Along with the new policy of the Student Council embodied in its interest in educational matters, especially in the present college curriculum, I think this new policy of the CRIMSON marks a very long step forward, a refreshing change of attitude of the undergraduate body towards the management of their own affairs. Richard C. Cabot '89, Professor of Social Ethics...