Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the day comes that Harvard becomes so narrow that it cannot include within its curriculum a few courses in the art of national preservation, Harvard had better cease to exist as a national institution, or as an institution of any kind. A Harvard diploma is a wonderful thing for a job seeker to wave under the nose of an employer, but it will not turn aside enemy gunfire, or protect the "guts" or "lack of guts" from an enemy bayonet. Perhaps, the author of the editorial is quite sure that he will never face an enemy bayonet. Such...
...generally conceded that this curriculum is a survival from other times and that it must be revised to fit the present. One suggestion that is being tried includes making a study of mankind's progress and problems a center for much of the course. Another requires of all pupils a general understanding of the methods and the more necessary fundamental skills, ideas and applications of mathematics and science instead of limited fields such as algebra or physics, which would become electives...
...survey of tutorial work will reveal its unsatisfactory position in the college curriculum. For years it has stood in a No Man's Land of its own, beyond the pale of the regular course system, and the most conflicting opinions have been held regarding its exact position there, and the relation it ought to bear to the regular course work. The first essential for the invigoration of the tutorial system is to give it a definite standing, and to resolve the present chaos of opinions regarding it into more exact concepts. There must, in fine, be a clearer understanding...
...system of limited tutees has the advantage of giving tutorial work a definite standing in the curriculum by substituting it for course work. This opens the way, moreover, for an eventual shifting of regular course work to the field of tutorial, in accordance with the abilities of the individual student. The flowering of the tutorial method will come when lecture courses, and especially the less instructive ones, are crowded out of the curriculum, and their place taken by tutorial. The suggested method of tutorial work makes way for this trend. In addition, this privileged system preserves the finest fruits...
Realizing the imminent necessity of facing this change, the Yale school has attempted to broaden the classical curriculum to include practical study of social changes in relation to the law. Instead of being confined to case precedents, the new study will attempt to find the causes and effects of the case, the actual circumstances from which the legal problem arose. Dean Clark has expressed the hope that the new plan will not merely be useful as vocational training. "The dream is that this will result in real gain in scientific knowledge and in methods of control of our intricate social...