Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, while these state-operated courses are doing excellent work, Harvard could render a far more valuable service by incorporating within her own curriculum a system of education along the lines of that now in effect in Columbia. There, about 10,000 students, not part of the undergraduate body, are educated each year. With care and patience Harvard could develop and maintain a system of this kind which would be far more valuable than lending out instructors to a separate institution...
...regard to the University Professorships, I have known of no such intelligent and realistic attempt to offset the evils of over-departmentalization and of high specialization as is represented by the proposal of this plan. For perfectly obvious and understandable reasons a college curriculum tends to fall into the hands of specialists working in water-tight compartments of knowledge and instinctively holding the bulkheads tightly closed that if opened would articulate one branch of knowledge with another. The inevitable result of this is failure on the part of institutions of higher education to make clear to undergraduates anything even mildly...
...there is little occasion to struggle for this precious possession at Harvard, the Association has won neither fame nor notoriety. Anyway, its function is to prevent unfair discrimination against professors and to assure them of proper salaries, retirements, and appointments. It also concerns itself with problems of administration and curriculum, and publishes a useful magazine. But these activities are secondary. And since the field into which the main activities fall is a small one at Harvard, there is certainly no need for a second organization to help cover...
...spring, President Keezer invited the usual academic guests, informed them that they, not he, would do the talking. One suggestion he acted on was for a system of faculty advisers charged with the duty of seeing that new students get a "custom-made" rather than a "ready-to-wear" curriculum...
...first Harvard curriculum, soaked with philosophy and New Testament Greek lagged behind the advances of early 17th century continental thought and science. Latin, still Harvard's official language, was not taught. It was merely assumed and commonly used. Scholastic disputations were still in vogue; and in the science of mid 17th Century Massachusetts the earth was still the center of the universe (as was Boston State House in the mid-roth...