Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible that in this instance the father might learn from the son. The broad surveys in English, history, philosophy and science, whether required for mental discipline or to give intellectual scope, should be included in a uniform freshman curriculum. Such a step would not only benefit the concentration plan, but would disseminate as early as possible those blessings claimed for survey courses, and leave later college years less troubled by cramping loose ends and regulations...
...mistaken faith in mankind, tried to give his students opportunity to round out their knowledge. President Lowell attempted to force them to acquire a little Kultur. The disease seems to have been too severe for such homeopathic doses. It is now clear that to improve the product of the curriculum there must be improvement in its raw material. If the college today would work improvements it would best begin by agitating energetically for a reliable, thorough and uniform system of kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools, which can be trusted to train boys for scholarship. Until such changes are made every...
...research. The thousands of completely educated and competent graduates who have braved the financial and social rigors of general family practice, especially in rural districts, testify to the falsity of this accusation. Vanderbilt Hall, the Medical School's own House Plan, is another proof that the School's curriculum is centered about the student, not the laboratory. Lastly, the free access which the School has to three of the finest hospitals in America, represents not only the appreciation of Boston for the collected wisdom of the school, but also singularly important instruction in everyday medicine...
...compressed into a few lectures. A series of small meetings for the discussion of sex problems, similar to those which Dr. Worcester now gives on request, and at which attendance might be compulsory, would be more than adequate to take care of the main function of the present rambling curriculum. The advantages which a small meeting possesses for instruction in sex hygiene are fairly obvious. Lastly, the examination in the course, which has become a joke should be abolished. Were all this done, each of the two purposes for which Hygiene is now intended would be attained, instead of hampering...
...more potent Green Key; and above all there are the changes introduced by the administration: abolition of all entrance requirements and a consequent broadening of the selective system to fill the gap; appointment of a dean of the faculty who will have direct control and supervision over the curriculum, the better to perform progressive alterations...