Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt took office the course of study for him and the U. S. was well defined: Recovery and Reform. For 21 months he and the U. S. stuck close to this curriculum. Last week's announcement on war and profits marked the President's first major digression into the field of extracurricular activity...
With the over-growing participation of the government in business and the close inter-relationship between the two the need for trained experts is greater than over before in the history of our country. Dean Donham's recognition of the problem is timely and his intention of adapting the curriculum to present-day social needs should be encouraged and carried out. Too few men are prepared to carry on the work of public administration and in the past the civil service has not attracted men of the best ability. Were the government to be run on the same efficient basis...
...Their instruction may not have been equal to that of the preparatory schools, but if they succeeded in ranking among the superior minority of their classmates, they must have learned considerable English in the course of their education, since that is a subject which dominates almost every curriculum...
...offer a perfect solution, they seem as satisfactory as any. Many there are who feel it wise to allow a student four courses and tell him he may take any four he chooses without regard to subjects at all. This does not seem acceptable with the present curriculum. The tendency might well be to take four snap courses which would not give one a semblance of what is optimistically called a rounded education. It seems advisable to require a certain amount of distribution and as such is the case, one plausible solution is to offer as these requirements...
...seems to be sound advice. It is indeed unfortunate that the present generation of educated men are receiving their diplomas without a satisfactory knowledge of either Latin or Greek. This may be traced to the tendency in the high schools, especially the public ones, to drop Latin from the curriculum. For this reason the Universities say that they must cater to the schools or they will be unable to find men to fill their halls of learning. It is regrettable that secondary education is in in the saddle to such an extent that the institutions of higher learning, which really...