Word: curriculum
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...undergraduate decides that one altered letter in his degree is not worth all this extra work and all the dissipation of energy it involves, what changes must he make in his planned curriculum to align it with his non-classical background? He need make no other change at all. He may take eight courses in English and one in elementary science; that does not alter the fact that, without Latin or Greek, his badge of achievement, awarded after four years, must be in science and not in arts. Moreover, if he wants to try for honors in English he discovers...
...Institute of Criminal Law at the Harvard Law School, the first of its kind in this country, has as its program the scientific correction of criminals. In the wide curriculum are included economics, government, social and psychopathology; social ethics, casework, and research; mental hygiene, criminology, penology, and the usual legal subjects. The first part of the two-year course is spent in research, the summer in some penal institution if possible, and the second part in instruction. When these men have graduated, the Institute hopes to place them in probation or correctional offices, so that they may be able...
...past and bright outlook for the future are gratifying in so indifferent a university. Nevertheless, it is handicapped by its very nature, as an extra-curricular activity, for it doubtless should be complementary to an adequate treatment of the theory, if not the practice, in the college curriculum...
Specifically, what Mr. Lowell did in the Harvard Yard was first to unify the curriculum by insisting on a more reasoned use of the elective system. Boys were no longer allowed to roam at their own free will among snap courses; they were required to know something of several subjects and much of some one subject. Next, he abolished the sprawling formlessness of undergraduate social life by gathering all the freshmen in a group of dormitories specially built for them down beside the Charles. That was considered a great innovation. But a greater, and more needed, was to follow...
...such commonplace errors, in a survey published by the National Council of Teachers of English. Representing 6,000 elementary, high school and college teachers, the National Council cannot enforce its edicts, but by its 21-year-old authority, its surveys and discussions, it has much influence in textbook-making, curriculum-drafting and teaching. For its study of English usage the National Council got 229 judges-authors, linguists, editors, businessmen, teachers. Both studies tended away from "an impossible literary standard'' and towards "the habits of better middle class speech." The English teachers said that they "believe, of course...