Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present there seem to be only two possible solutions to the problem. Either the Engineering School must improve or it must be discontinued. Graduates assert that there is very little left in the present curriculum to attract men to the School. They claim that Professor Sauveur is the only redeeming feature of the Metallurgy department and that he will soon be forced by age to retire. The presence of the Institute of Technology in the same city should either force the discontinuance of the school or stimulate it to improvement...
...laboratories, of the backwardness of the Harvard Engineering School. To Claim that the subject is of such recent birth that it has not come to the attention of the authorities would be to raise the question of how the developments in communication engineering ever found their way into the curriculum...
Influential members of the Department are understood to feel that without substantial course reduction in the field to accompany them, the new lectures will constitute a "fifth wheel" in the regular curriculum, and the men are known accordingly to favor a reduction of the regular course requirements, at least in Government, to a maximum of eight or ten units in the regular four-year course...
...College officials should note carefully whether some of the necessary adjustments of the teaching load cannot be made with less harm in the course system. There is offered in the College at present an altogether excessive amount of course instruction. While some departments, such as economics, have reduced their curriculum to the minimum number of courses required to cover the major sectors of the field, other departments remain glutted with a multitude of courses which are often as poor as they are superfluous...
...higher scholastics of the Freshmen would materially raise the cultural level of the whole college, the preparatory schools would be forced to offer a far more advanced curriculum than at present. There is no question that such a change cannot be accomplished in a single year; the radical developments necessitated could neither be forced upon nor digested by the conservative organization of American secondary education in less than a dozen years...