Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...type of general concentration which would include two or more of the present "fields." The experiment of combining History and Literature is a proved success, with many more students clamoring to be admitted than is possible under the present limitations. Hundreds of students would like so to arrange their curriculum that two or three fields would assume equal importance. For these students, most of whom steadfastedly maintain this belief throughout college, diversification of studies would vastly increase the utility of college life. Particularly for members of this group, specialization in one field is no guarantee that they will want...
...stressed, and what should be a moving factor in any changes that are made at the Law School, is that modern law is based not so much upon legal technicalities, as upon political, social, and economic considerations. The mere addition of courses in sociology, economics, and government to the curriculum would not meet the problem. It is a change in the basic method of approach--a change from a standardized to an individualized concept of each case--that must be adopted if the Harvard Law School is to retain its supremacy...
...Special courses in the social sciences and in business administration are unnecessary in a law school curriculum. (This is directly contrary to the Yale plan of giving law school men a year at business school...
...Maintain the three years for the course but completely reorganize the curriculum with a view to covering the whole field of law in a general survey in the first two years, then develop details in certain subjects in the final year. There are three ways in which this might be done...
...library had been gutted, its laboratory equipment smashed or looted. When Lee took charge at Washington, part of the campus was being used for farm land. Although not a first-rate "academic beggar," Lee administered what money he had to good effect. To the old-time classical curriculum, so beloved of the Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamars, Lee, who had spent four years defending the planters' leisure-class culture, soon added vulgar practical courses of agriculture, commerce and applied chemistry, thus anticipating Nicholas Murray Butler's Columbia by some decades...