Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was a Dartmouth undergraduate, Hamilton's new 39-year-old president, William Harold Cowley, crusaded as editor of the Dartmouth against class fights and other hallowed horseplay, induced the college to re-study and eventually change its curriculum. His classmates voted that he had "done most for Dartmouth," was "most likely to succeed." From Dartmouth, husky Bill Cowley, who had taken a crack at newspapering and industrial personnel work before graduation, went to the Bell Telephone Laboratories and then to University of Chicago, where he had charge of vocational guidance and placement. Since 1929 he has been...
Lest the school fall into too deep a rut, each of the 28 houses in which Eton boys live changes its name and its tutor every 16 years (three Eton generations). The curriculum changes more slowly. A hundred years ago every boy studied Greek and Latin, today most still study Latin, about half Greek. But now all boys must take mathematics, science, French and history. A revolutionary development in this 500-year-old classical school is the popularity of its new workshops, where about 100 of Eton's 1,150 young aristocrats, in their spare time, use lathes...
...teachers are the best paid.* It has the biggest, most expensive school buildings. It also has some 20,000 habitual truants, turns out swarms of young criminals. Until a few years ago nearly one-third of its pupils were retarded, barking their shins against its iron, assembly-line curriculum...
...Latin & Greek were staples of the U. S. high-school curriculum. Either because or in spite of that fact, the curriculum was under sharp attack. One of its severest critics, dynamic Dr. Abraham Flexner, then secretary of the Carnegie Foundation, got the Rockefeller General Education Board to start the Lincoln School, an experimental, "progressive" school. It was attached to Columbia University's Teachers College. Today Lincoln School has about 650 pupils in all grades from kindergarten through high school, is counted one of the leading progressive institutions in the U. S. The school has done many unorthodox things, such...
...School looks extraordinarily bright. Experiments of other schools are to be welcomed, but the healthy atmosphere in which all shades of opinion compete for belief, is not likely to be seriously challenged by the fads and fashions that arise from time to time. With a brilliant faculty, a curriculum suited to their abilities and to changing needs, and with an admissions system likely to get the best potential legal brains, the cause of raising and maintaining high legal standards in America will be served by Harvard in the future as in the past...