Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a faculty committee poring over an exhaustive report on the curriculum, the Law School this fall has begun to play the part of a major university problem. Beset on the outside by rapidly shifting concepts of legal thinking and tied from within by the system of teaching to which it has adhered for a generation, the school which was once the brightest star in the Harvard firmament has suffered a threat to its supremacy. That the faculty has waked up to the dangers is an encouraging sign, but in planning any changes in legal education the committee should keep...
Thus, while the senior divisional papers cannot rightly be given back, as they form a closed chapter in the scholastic curriculum, it is up to the University to see to it that all papers which lead up to the last judgement shall be made available for those who want to refer to them...
...left unnecessary and harmful gaps in what should have been a unified whole. This year a new course, Music 1, combines some of these in a general survey course: inasmuch as there are three hundreds members of this course, the wisdom of the change speaks for itself. The entire curriculum is organized according to a new plan which took four years to evolve, the aim of which is to supply the student with a more satisfactory method of approach and study. Courses on a specific man or period are given in such a way that the knowledge thereby acquired...
After bemoaning the presence of so many little subjects in the curriculum, you then go on in favor of more unrelated subjects. Remember that the Mil. Sci. Dept. is training men for the field artillery, not in chemical warfare, coast artillery, anti-craft warfare, all of which are separate branches of the army...
...momentum are over. Undergraduates are becoming increasingly critical and observant, and their opinion, freely expressed, was the soap on the bathroom floor which sent Sociology A and Philosophy B skidding to destruction. The voice of the student body is becoming a factor of increasing importance in shaping the curriculum of the college...