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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant has been emphasizing the importance of individual work in the teaching staff at Harvard. As yet he has not fully applied that policy to the students. When, and if, he does, the matter will not be one of simply changing the curriculum, or adopting Bennington's policy of one month away from the college to be devoted to individual work. It is more a complete change of attitude towards education that will be necessary. Before this Harvard has been willing to experiment. Academic freedom, the House plan, distribution and requirements were all experimental. To this willingness the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TIME'S CHALLENGE | 10/1/1935 | See Source »

...pitcher of the Galveston team in the Texas League. A top-notch tennist, Dr. Rainey has often been seen wandering through the dormitories of whatever college he happened to head, looking for a student to trim. In his four years at Bucknell he has made news by scrambling the curriculum to make room for more creative work in art, music, literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: $800,000 Commission | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...seen the need for changing the Law School curriculum to meet new demands more clearly than Dean Pound. In his report to President Conaut last year, he stressed the necessity of either reorganizing the present system of courses or of extending the Law School course from three to four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Pound Relinquishes Law School Leadership After 20 Years of Service | 9/25/1935 | See Source »

...sure way to rile an alumnus of Antioch College is to call his alma mater a trade school. Every Antioch student alternates work and study. For five to ten weeks he plugs at a liberal arts curriculum on the campus at Yellow Springs, Ohio. Then for an equal period he works in an office, store, factory, newspaper or at any job which appeals to him. Antioch's President Arthur Ernest Morgan (now on leave as chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority) thinks of the work periods as a preparation for a full life and a substitute for the farm chores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Antioch Heroine | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...obtain enough additional signatures by tomorrow to force the success of the plea when it is presented to University Hall next week. For three years the course has been listed as "to be omitted next year." Members of the Class of 1936 wanting the course on next year's curriculum, hope to overcome the objection of the University that three are insufficient applicants to warrant a course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VICTORY? | 6/7/1935 | See Source »

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