Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applied more to the unpleasant realities, Harry Woodburn Chase suggests that they be "devoted to really learning something about the world," a world which Mr. Chase sees in terms of the problems of contemporary life. To him such subjects as economics and biology are the cream of the curriculum. But while man's income and digestion are of major importance, the tradition of higher education has been to concentrate upon celebration...
...example, teachers are relatively free to adjust the school curriculum to a closer relation with the international realities of today. We can teach more of the international setting of our national history. We can teach more of the unpleasant truths of war. All this we ought to do in the interest of a better relation between public education and international realities...
...young enough to stimulate the interest of the Freshmen, and who can understand their point of view. If possible, they should be instructors who have recently graduated from Harvard, and who are well acquainted with University courses, language requirements, conditions of probation, and the general curriculum of the College. Not more than ten men should be assigned to each advisor. Furthermore, they should be adequately paid for their time, either through an increase in salary proportional to the number of their Freshmen or through a reduction in the quantity of courses and tutees assigned to them. Often under the existing...
Responding to increased demand for the inclusion of foreign study in the undergraduate curriculum, several eastern universities adopted a few years ago the so-called New Jersey plan, which allows a group of selected students to spend the Junior year at some accepted European university and return as fully accredited Seniors the following year. Although admittedly experimental at the outset, the success of this plan has been so marked that it has been adopted as a permanent feature at such leading universities as Cornell, Smith, and Wellesley, to name only a few. The advantages of this system are so patent...
...Recent Trends in American Government" and "Money and Commercial Crises" are among the new University Extension Courses offered to residents of Greater Boston after regular working hours for the 1934-35 academic year. The curriculum consists of 27 courses in a variety of subjects...