Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train students to deal with the particular problems of the state in which they are located. Asserting the need for expert public servants, the report claims that the best way to impart the essential training is to use the local problems as a basis for a curriculum and to illustrate solutions with examples taken from history...
...School with sufficiently good grades may transfer to the College as Sophomores with little difficulty; in fact, when members of the Class of 1935 applied they were advised to register under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences if they desired to take any courses except Engineering sciences, since the curriculum of the Engineering School was recently narrowed. Under the aegis of the College in the division of Engineering Sciences of the department of Physical Sciences, students may take the same courses under the same instructors that are given in the Engineering School...
That drama is an art cannot well be denied, and that it is therefore entitled to a place on the curriculum of Liberal Colleges naturally follows. But as the study of any art, the study of Drama should be one of self-expression and originality not of slavish imitation. In this the Yale School of Drama has, to all accounts, singularly failed. But the chief criticism of the school lies not so much in succumbing to this universal weakness as in the application of the name "Art" to a school strictly vocational in method and purpose. Yale has added more...
...course in practical psychology and three or four expert psychoanalyists would be more useful and helpful to the undergraduate body of our colleges than all the subjects in the curriculum and the entire faculty," Gertrude Steele Chambers, most prominent woman psychologist in the country, and pupil of both Freud and Jung, declared in an interview yesterday...
...colleges is sound, that principle should be extended. If training to become a soldier is college education, then training to become any sort of uniformed public servant is college education, and courses in Letter Carrying, Fire Fighting, Dog Catching, and Street Cleaning, all have their proper place in the curriculum...