Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contribution. Europe again offers a solution, a way out of the wasteful "three-legged" partnership between scholar and dunce in their race for a degree. Aside from the vociferous backing of the Harkness Hoot, the two-degree system has attracted many prominent educators. If a more intensive and expensive curriculum is to be established both in courses and tutorial work, for the scholar nucleus; a less-arduous life might well be planned for budding lawyers, doctors, businessmen, clubmen, football coaches, and future unemployed who constitute the solid background of Harvard life and finances. The term "two-degree system" would mean...
Arraigned on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of minors by keeping them out of public school, University of Islam instructors kept their mouths tight shut. From the textbooks police learned that the school's curriculum included courses in General Knowledge of the Spook Being Displayed for 6,000 Years, General Knowledge of Spook Civilization, The Duty of a Moslem. Sample lessons...
...there is already a growing feeling of antagonism both on the part of the Faculty and the students. The feeling is prevalent that men should not be instructed how to wage war but how to preserve peace and international tranquility without force. By abolishing these military courses from the curriculum the University would set a precedent for other colleges and aid in a practical way in furthering the cause of peace...
...exams in the Sophomore year, and the ancient authors in the third year. If these subjects are to have any real value to the students of the Department of Ancient and Modern Languages this precedent must be followed and a genuine forward step taken toward the humanization of the curriculum...
...walkout of the National Students League planned for that time will go on as arranged without the interference of the authorities according to Dean Hanford. "I see no reason why the University should in any way alter the regular curriculum because of the strike," was the official dictum...