Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington degrees will be reduced to three: in Law, Arts, Sciences. Extracurricular activities will be minimized, optional courses curtailed, the whole curriculum made more rigid, the student workday lengthened. Vocational education, except in Law, is to be gradually reduced in accordance with Governor Hartley's lack of sympathy for it. Reason given for the whole change is the need for economy. The university administration's overhead comes to $125,000 a year. President Spencer has refused to say how much the consolidation would reduce this. Said Matthew Hill, best-known Washington alumnus: "Oppressive taxes and the public...
...cost: in the Experimental College, where tutorial methods were largely used, the ratio of teachers to students was one to 18, as against one to ten in 26 representative U. S. colleges. Instruction was thus cheaper but it required that every teacher give instruction in every subject in the curriculum. No other U. S. college has a unified two-year course which could be taught by interchangeable teachers...
...curriculum: the unified study of Greek and American life (which the Advisers discussed as a starting point for other comparative studies) leans heavily on social sciences, gives no place to languages or specific sciences, which Experimental College students had to study on ''the Hill." Also, there is a loss in effectiveness when, for example, an Adviser whose field is Art must teach Economics to an experimental college group. A further disadvantage: there is no articulation between high school and experimental college courses, nor with the university courses which the student takes after finishing the Greek-American study...
...towards higher scholarship. More time is now given to academic work. Extra-curricular activities--managership competitions, publications, music clubs, debating societies, and athletics have noted a decline in the emphasis given to them in undergraduate life. The tutorial system, the divisional examinations giving a central theme to the individual curriculum, and the House Plan are all indicative of a trend which is manifested in the Graduate schools by plans for a Society of Fellows, and in at least one, by marked stiffening of the admission requirements. An elderly New York graduate, of the old school, has complained of President Lowell...
According to an announcement made yesterday by J. A. Haeseler '23, director of the University Film Foundation, the Anthropology Department has definitely undertaken the introduction of motion pictures into the regular curriculum of the Department...