Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This decline is hard to explain, since the curriculum has been reorganized on lines formed by student reaction in the past. Formerly the first half-year dealt solely with American forms of Government and the second with foreign brands. This year less space will be devoted to the United States...
Believed to be the only thing of its kind found anywhere in the regular College curriculum, a field course in child psychology forms one of the requirements for the soccer managerial competition now in process of organization...
...Graduate Schools await President Conant on his return from England. This year the new School of Public Administration, made possible by the gift of $2,000,000 from Lucius N. Littauer, is Scheduled to take shape. This year also the Graduate School of Education has been reorganized. The curriculum will be more closely related to that of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and general examinations will largely supplant course credits in the pursuit of the degree. Finally, President Conant must continue his search for a Dean for the Law School, a post vacant since the resignation of Dean...
...valuable information on the development and perpetuation of the liberal tradition at Harvard, opposed at the beginning by Increase Mather and at the three-hundredth mark by that slightly more sooty historical character, William Randolph Hearst. There are diverting remarks on the growth and character of the Harvard curriculum under its various presidents, and sketches notable for their conciseness and intelligibility of the progressive contributions of our greatest leaders...
That man is George Sylvester Counts. Last week the slight, peppery Professor of Education in Columbia University's crack Teachers' College turned up in Palo Alto, at Stanford's expense, to address 1,800 educators assembled for the University's annual Conference on Curriculum & Guidance. Well aware that his reputation as an eminent radical educator had preceded him to Hearstland, he began his address thus: "It's becoming almost respectable to be called a Red. Let anyone step out in defense of popular right, and he will be labeled a Communist...