Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fletcher Graduate School of Diplomacy at Tufts University represents the concrete realization of a desire long felt by educators to further the important study of international relations. The new school which is to be situated at Tufts, will have a faculty composed largely of Harvard professors; its curriculum, determined by a joint commission of the two Universities, will purpose to quality students for diplomatic service by advance instruction in international...
...recognition of the great possibilities afforded by a separate institution in the study of international diplomacy. Under judicious management it may well gain the prestige and dignity of organized scholarship which is impossible to attain while the field is regarded merely as a part of an Arts and Sciences curriculum or when, although isolated, it labors under the stigma of pure vocationalism. Study under such conditions would endow men entering the state department with a far more scholarly attitude than before; the new atmosphere should encourage more students to enter the field as research scholars. If the school can bring...
...while educators have given a great deal of attention to finding proper ways for selecting university freshmen, it appears that two other problems, those of correlating curriculum and social life, have not been given deserved consideration. The necessity of offering introductory language, composition, and science courses in college has frequently been recognized as unfortunate. Because students are not given courses of sufficiently advanced calibre in preparatory school, in order to satisfy their distribution requirements in college, they must take courses of an elementary sort...
...curriculam. And there has recently been a justified agitation for an intelligent correlation between the two instead of their present divorce. In this light, therefore, the suggestion is to be commended as a healthy awakening, but examined more closely it reveals two unfortunate tendencies. An equitable balance in the curriculum between things modern and things historical is highly desirable, but it is absurd to suppose that without a sound understanding of the past the student can hope to gain a firm foundation on which to base his attitude toward present difficulties. The Wisconsin report, in proposing almost complete emphasis...
Answers to previous questionnaires have shown that seniors give serious consideration to the subjects. The considered opinion, moreover, of men who have spent four years taking Harvard courses could be invaluable to the administration in its attempts to improve the curriculum and to determine the value of particular courses to students...