Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent changes in our curriculum have been in the direction of recognizing individual variations...
When the Dodds committee has surveyed the field and laid out a curriculum, Harvard will appoint a dean and three professors, probably open the school in September 1937. Founder Littauer charged the University especially to find "a dean of high abilities, energy and courage." An obvious question last week was whether it could overlook Felix Frankfurter, whose young proteges in Washington are the nearest U. S. approach to the British Civil Service. Since Professor Frankfurter and his "Happy Hot Dogs'' are cordially disliked and distrusted by Republicans, businessmen and most Harvardmen, a good guess was that Harvard will...
...genuine service and in return it is neglected by students and administration alike. Its grievance is in no way lessened by the success it has won, for all its conquests are made at the expense of unneccessary pain and tribulation. Debating must be received into the body of the curriculum: into the Department of Public Speaking...
Finally the question of curriculum could be solved by giving ten courses each year; ten of them stable fare and the others varying to serve the variegated demand. The regulars would probably be made up of the old scholastic guard: History, English Literature, Government, Economics, and so forth. The variables would be chosen out of the motley group represented by the Fine Arts, Music, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities...
...maze of philosophical, historical, and generally cultural studies which make up the Harvard curriculum, English F stands as one of the few courses whose practical value is obvious. This course, devoted to the art of public appealing, is of especial value to the man who expects to take an active place in the business and professional world. Here, with all the paraphernalia of phonographical recordings of his voice, actual dinners to test out the principles of good after dinner speaking, and instructors trained to detect flaws in the student's method of preparing a speech and in the technique...