Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College limit itself to providing technical competence in a chosen field even of undoubted substance. The intensification of the tutorial system and general examinations by elimination of conflicting restrictions such as the elementary language requirements and hour examinations is all to the good. But there is room in the curriculum for more than one objective. The abandonment of distribution (and especially the required choice between mathematics and philosophy), and the prospective retirement of Latin, carry real danger. The experience under President Eliot with a policy of free-for-all, as underscored by present vagaries in secondary education, indicates the necessary...
...results of this questionnaire will be used in the committee's report to the Faculty Curriculum Committee, headed by Warren A. Seavey, professor...
Distribution will pass from the Harvard scene beginning with the Class of 1939, according to a vote of the Faculty which was announced yesterday. Recognizing a policy of self-education by the student, the new rule will make no requirements on his curriculum except that he can take no more than eleven courses in any one field...
Priest Coughlin did not perform at his usual radio hour four days later. Instead he had a lieutenant explain vaguely that his union "now entered its third phase of development, from a school of one teacher to a school of many teachers, but with a curriculum unchanged...
...Civil War was fought and shortly Latin School had its own private fight. The school committee wanted to give it a broad, up-to-date program of studies. When the headmaster stood pat, the committee revenged itself by making fantastic changes in the curriculum, and the school went into a slump. After the headmaster died, his successor appeased the committee by adding new courses but left the classics in the saddle...