Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interest in University affairs such as academic problems, curriculum and House plans, placed a close second to the usual political and economic questions in the poll to suggest topics for next year's debates, while philosophical and humorous subjects attracted little enthusiasm...
Turning to a discussion of changes which have just been made in the Harvard curriculum, he said that more seminars are being introduced in the third year which will bring more students in contact with the faculty. This contact, he felt, is needed more by the students lower down the scale than by the top men who "teach themselves...
This self-analysis which the law school has been carrying on for the last three years has, however, stimulated certain major changes. Most important is the new curriculum announced in an article by Professor Simpson in the April issue of the Harvard Law Review. To meet the increasing emphasis which the trend of the times is placing on new legal techniques, and to permit more intensive specialization in the final year, it has been found desirable to compress into the first two years much of the material traditionally studied over the whole course. The faculty committee, and in particular Dean...
...discussion of Freshman curriculum must be made in the light of what the student will study during his remaining three years in Cambridge. The student should leave college, President Eliot once said, knowing "a little about a lot and a lot about a little." And it seems logical that he gain the knowledge in that order, looking over the field before he attempts to concentrate. Yet in such a program, demanding highly specialized work the last two years and more general study the first two, there are serious dangers that may well upset the Freshman curriculum...
Distribution in the Freshman and Sophomore years is an excellent plan, and one essential to a well-rounded education, but such a curriculum cannot be imposed at the expense of interest and initiative. If general courses are to be retained, it must be with instructors who are at once anxious and able to teach and to provoke student thought. Theirs is a task infinitely more complex than that of the school-room lecturer, for they are initiating the student into a world full of contradictions and injustices, and in so doing are giving him a social viewpoint he will carry...