Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irritatingly called being well-rounded, that could as well be achieved on a world cruise, as things stand now. Intellectually, well-roundedness was an ideal discarded five hundred years ago: yet we may well ask ourselves whether we ought not to undergo the discipline of the liberal arts curriculum. It must, in any case, seem odd to give the title of bachelor of arts annually to hundreds who are in any way proficient in only one or two of the fundamental seven arts...
...Annapolis, Maryland, only a fraction of the size of this college, should nevertheless be of interest to Harvard students this year because of an experiment in education which is the exact opposite of the system here. Backed by President Hutchins of Chicago University, this institution is launching a compulsory curriculum based on the "Hundred Great Books" which, according to its authorities, are the foundation of all our knowledge and culture. It is, roughly, a chronological study of the arts and sciences of the ages, conforming to its supporters' idea of what is the basis for a modern education, and raging...
...This curriculum is interesting if only as a complete antithesis in theory to the self-determination and liberality of choice offered here. Undoubtedly this arbitrary scheme of education will be unpopular with radicals and liberals. Many will support President Conant's statement in 1936 that he was "not enthusiastic about an education which is administered by a force pump," and the dread word Fascist may even be read into...
...practicability of a program which has sprung, so to speak, fully armed from the head of Dr. Hutchins. The sceptic can reasonably be allowed his questions as to the maturity of this sudden revival of medieval scholasticism, and raised eyebrows must be expected at such parts of the curriculum as the public dissection of an animal, whose modern practice might be slightly straining a tradition. But Harvard should vigilantly watch this departure in education in this small laboratory and be ready to use anything practical which may come...
Anybody who has taken History 1 knows that institutions are little pendulums (represented by a piece of chalk on a string) which swing from Security to Freedom. The drop of 257 in History 1's enrollment is ironic proof that the undergraduate curriculum has itself undergone this frying pan-to-fire process in the course of the last four years...