Word: curriculum
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Modern Harvard is a University a University which prides itself on the vitality of its undergraduate curriculum and the favorable opportunities afforded for the development of undergraduate life. In America today a young man when he has completed his school course, has a wide range of choice in regard to the next step in his education. He may decide to enroll in an institution of technology or a military academy; he may choose to enter a small college or to become an undergraduate in a university. If his choice falls on a university rather than on a college...
Every fall some 350 youngsters hammer at Holy Name's gates, about 35 get in* (present student body numbers 93). The curriculum includes technical high school and scientific college courses of four years each. High school students study conventional courses with emphasis on mechanics, little or no aeronautics...
...Students were most likely to be dishonest in their school work, which led Miss Omwake to observe that the traditional school curriculum, stressing competition for marks, "may promote dishonesty." Of her students, 33% said they would be tempted to cheat in an examination if they could get away with it; 50% would be tempted if most of their classmates cheated; 79% had actually cheated in an examination at least once...
...which small colleges compete for teachers, students and money with big ones, State universities with private, city colleges with country. Threatening the whole established order of higher education are two radical, current experiments: Stringfellow Barr's St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., which has a fixed curriculum of 100 classics, and presidentless Black Mountain College in North Carolina, which has no required courses, seeks to promote learning mainly through art, music and dramatics...
Elementary Meteorology will be offered by Hurd C. Willett, associate professor of Meteorology at M.I.T. as a half course beginning in September. The course was given for 40 years by Robert DcC. Ward, professor of Paleontology up to his death in 1931, and has not been in the curriculum since...