Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curriculum of the first year includes floor and aerial acrobatics, gymnastic exercises on cross bars, trapeze, rope-walking, bicycle riding, and many other specialties...
Before a meeting of one of the Law Clubs recently, an old but reasonable plan was presented to alleviate some of the mechanical routine work which prematurely whitens the hair and stoops the shoulders of nascent advocates. This is the proposal to add to the curriculum an optional, credited, thesis course, in which individual initiative would have an outlet. It would offer an agreeable relief from the never-ceasing labor of note-taking, note-memorizing, and case-summarizing...
...should concentrate in Geology unless he is willing to take a large amount of laboratory work, for laboratory work plays a large part in the curriculum. This should not terrify the neophyte, for the laboratory work is far from dull nor does it consume as much time as one might first imagine. Many men have found time to compete in athletics as well. Since the classes are small, the student is in close contact with the professor and instructors. Every opportunity is offered for the student to talk over problems with his professors and profit by their experience, an advantage...
Changes in Biology A and Geology 4 and 5 are the most important alterations in the curriculum for next year revealed is the preliminary Announcement of Courses recently published. Men receiving a grade of A or B in Biology A will hereafter be allowed to count the course to fulfill the introductory concentration requirement in that field and may be admitted to more advanced courses on that basis. Formerly students were required to take Zoology 1 and Botany 1 in place of Biology A for concentration in the field...
...itself. Dramatic writing is as important a form of expression as is fiction and poetry, and as such should be recognized by the English Department. The present lack of balance in composition courses should be compensated by the inclusion of a play writing course in the curriculum...