Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davis will not alter National Park's four-year preparatory curriculum, but plans to expand its junior college course, advertise it more extensively than ever. He favors plenty of bowling, swimming, gymnastics for his girls, regular parties for neighboring collegians, frequent excursions to Washington nine miles away. Says he: "I look on this school as a magnificent laboratory...
...only has the curriculum lengthened but it has broadened. To take care of farm boys many agricultural merit badges are now obtainable. Water sports have been increased and one important Scout activity is to teach several thousand boys to swim every year. In the South colored Scout troops have been formed...
...name "Offrecords" defines as neatly as Hors d'oeuvres does in French, the position these fancy bits take on any menu. . . . As far back as 30 years ago the Hors d'oeuvre was not even a part of kitchen curriculum. They were prepared by the butler in private homes and by the more experienced waiters in hotels and restaurants. The custom of serving tasty bits as preliminary to dinner started in Russia where they were called "Zakouski" and with the "Smorgasbord" of the Scandinavian countries, where the guests eat and drink them standing-and in a room apart...
Sweeping Law School curriculum changes announced in new plan...
...restrict them to a masculine diet?" While other girls' schools seemed determined to be as much like men's colleges as possible, Stephens developed in precisely the opposite direction. A junior college where most students take only a two-year course, Stephens is equipped with a streamlined curriculum which makes girls worry little over mathematics or Greek, lets them concentrate instead on such subjects as Elementary Music, Consumers' Problems, Principles of Dietetics, Tap Dancing, Expressive Speech. The courses are grouped to correspond with the seven main divisions which sprightly President Wood and Psychologist Wernett W. Charters made...