Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to require from each applicant a transcript of his college record. In 1935, it had available in usable form the college records of more than 4,100 men who, during the period 1928-1934, had entered the Law School and finished the work of the first year. The Curriculum Committee of the Faculty made a detailed study of these records in correlation with the results of the examinations taken by these men in the Law School, and particularly with the results of their first year examinations. They found what has often been found before but always quickly forgotten, that...
...student Board of Columbia college proposed the idea of the conference, to include discussion of such topics as Academic Freedom; Voting Systems; Systems of Representation; Athletics-intercollegiate and intramural; Commuters; Student Finance and Scholarships; Loans and Subsidies; Employment offices and Vocational Guidance; Curriculum; Religion; Physical plant; and, Fraternities and Social Life...
More Than a Secretary (Columbia) can best be diagnosed as a minor symptom of Columbia's current attack of whimsey. To test the curriculum of her business school, Carol Baldwin (Jean Arthur) takes a job as secretary to Fred Gilbert (George Brent), carrot-nibbling editor of a health magazine. When she falls in love with Gilbert, Carol decides to humanize him. He proves the efficacy of her humanizing by falling in love, not with her but with her dullest pupil, Maizie (Dorothea Kent). Getting this situation straightened out involves some of the most uneven comedy dialog of the season...
...stress our literature is to add more courses to the college curriculum, but since no authority like Mr. De Voto flourishes in the English Department, and perhaps not one in the country whom Harvard could adopt into its colorless brood, this suggests the improbable. A similar alternative, not to be regarded as final, is to improve as much as possible the existing courses. Toward the accomplishment of this the heads of English 7 are making a definite move...
...planning to reorganize the curriculum, the faculty should consider the subjects that can be covered in undergraduate work, rather than increase the years in law school from three to four. For while an extra year would give time for worthwhile special study, the rank and file of men should not be compelled to pile Pelion on Ossa in an already burdensome education...