Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slower men are to be retained in the Tutorial System, there must obviously be a more specific control by the tutor over the curriculum of his Tutees. Quite dogmatically, at least for the present; the CRIMSON proposes the following methods of control, which some departments have adopted in part, and which others might examine with profit. In the first place, although all men should be given a fair chance to "react favorably" to individual tutorial instruction during the Sophomore year, there should be a definite prestige given to such instruction in the last two years. Late in the Sophomore year...
These men will have a regular compulsory first-year curriculum, and next fall, when the 1933-34 session starts, they will enter as of the present first-year class, and will specialize in any of the several fields of business training offered to the student body...
...graduate with the right attitude toward scholarship. The Society of Fellows is stirring reiteration of confidence in that belief, and a means to proving its value. The foundation of the Society is probably the most significant forward step in American education since President Eliot's liberalization of the college curriculum...
Professor Chafee, admitting it is difficult to prescribe a uniform pre-legal curriculum for everyone, declared: "A chief count in the indictment of college education is that it fails to develop a desire for reading books in fields outside of courses...
This addition to the Business School curriculum was made, at the suggestion of a graduate committee of W. S. Gifford '04, J. I. Straus '93, and George Whitney '07 who, in recommending the plan pointed out that the school facilities for constructive business training must be made available this winter as a substitute for the demoralizing effect o waiting of jobs. It is understood that students who attend the session will have the same classroom instruction under the regular faculty...