Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administrative announcement implies. Freshman courses are also to suspend class-meetings for those two weeks. The essentially unorganized and undirected work of the reading period can do little but lose valuable classroom time in the elementary and survey courses which make up the Freshman curriculum. First year men, moreover, are having a difficult enough time in acclimating themselves to the college lecture method without suddenly being subjected to a system so radically different from that of the preparatory school...
...editorial policy of these papers seems to be bound in rigid provincialism, with an elaboration of current facts and details that merely report events, failing to challenge constructive thought. Editorial discussions refer to the ranking of clubs, liberalizing the curriculum and the normalcy of Phi Beta Kappa students, now and then pausing to this or that professor or this or that athletic team heartily between the shoulder blades...
...construction work at Harvard and Yale and its contagious effect on the attitude of smaller colleges. But in general, it may be said, that their position is far less discouraging than that of the western university described by Mr. Tunis. For they, unlike Western universities, possess the tradition, cultural curriculum and modern equipment on which the ideal mean must necessarily be based...
...progressive changes, to be sure: the introduction of the Reading Period; the Junior Divisionals in History, Government, and Economics; and the more recent modifications in the English Divisionals. But the present changes constitute the first complete adjustment to the tutorial system which has been made in the entire undergraduate curriculum...
Instituting a striking innovation in the curriculum of the School of Architecture. Charles H. Lench, of New York, will conduct an "Architectural Clinic" on the business side of architecture in the large lecture room of Robinson Hall every Monday at 12 o'clock, beginning today. The course is voluntary and is open to any student, in the University as well as to interested professional architects...