Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realize how heavily pressed are large departments, such as History and Economics. For them to obtain Freshman tutors is like throwing Man Mountain Dean. For complete success more is required than the readjustment of departmental budgets; in those departments, particularly Classics, not essential to the Freshman curriculum, the curtailment of budgets is mandatory. To achieve a thorough system of Freshman "tutorial," some full courses should perhaps be cut to half and some staffs reduced. But, if that part of the maladjustment evil which concerns Freshmen too advanced for the curriculum can be erased, then the Faculty should not hesitate...
...Harder Curriculum Demanded...
...less need to tighten up on the scholastic requirements to stay in college; thus the problem would be attacked at its very roots, and many men would be spared the unnecessary pain of being "flunked out." It is unfair to handicap a man by admitting him to a college curriculum which he cannot met, and then send him home again with a feeling of inferiority...
...tender, bared flesh of the undergraduate neck, student red-corpuscle-pressure mounts steadily higher, and a kind of feverish anxiety speeds up the ordinarily sluggish tempo of daily life. Under these circumstances, time becomes an all-important and vital factor; the primary object of the day's curriculum is to employ every minute, even every second, on the well high insurmountable task of cramming all those important, little bits of academic wisdom into the old cranium. As the undergraduate hastily slips into the dining hall at 9:30, bolts down a few fried eggs, and then dashes for Widener, after...
...listen to Mr. Lee, one might think that Harvard shapes the curriculum and teaching methods in the grades and institutions of higher learning. This, of course, is not true. Harvard standards are sometimes too rigid for high school graduates to meet. To conform to these requirements, schools must retain the classics, the so-called "dead languages", and many other subjects which may not seem practical in the light of present day trends. Still the colleges are offering an almost unlimited amount of courses, of every kind and description, which, according to President Robert M. Hutchins, of the University of Chicago...