Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous levels. We offer this second report in a spirit of constructive criticism, in the hope that it may accomplish as satisfying results as the first survey. Because of the nature of the Guide, it is impossible to recite commendations of the courses; we are concerned with bettering the curriculum set-up. But this does not mean that we found only undesirable conditions in our survey of the Freshman year...
...President has had only a few years to settle in his own mind the content of a curriculum for modern minds (and those years distracted by what would appear the heaviest administrative and public duties). . . . Where are the clear and distinct ideas? . . . The aureole of unity characteristic, or supposed to be characteristic, of an earlier time has caught the President's fancy . . . and he is out to save the world from bewilderment upon borrowed material. ... Do we want clear and distinct ideas or clear and fruitful thinking? ... I can myself make nothing of this nostalgic preference save a diverting...
...Fritz Marx, William P. Maddox, and Merle Fainsod, instructors in Government, compose the group planning innovations in the Government curriculum, and their recommendations will be ready in about two weeks time...
...expected that when the Littauer School of Public Administration is organized several courses dealing with Sociology will be included in the curriculum. It is probable that these courses will be now in scope and will cover the borderline between Government, Economics and Sociology...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Aubrey Williams, Executive Director of the National Youth Administration, and Henry N. McCracken, President of Vassar College, will be among the speakers on "Youth and the Modern Curriculum" at the annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers Association to be held here this Saturday...