Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teachers fulfill certain requirements. A Doctor's Degree, a published book, and a scholars' aptitude have been generally favored over the natural teaching gift, and the less recherche but more vigorous and personal contact. With the undergraduate, course requirements, and examinations have formed the frame-work of the curriculum. The tutorial system, the loosening of examination requirements, course reduction for honors men, and increasing emphasis on the thesis, however, have modified the academic rigor. The importance of the actual amassing of knowledge has some times not been recognized by modern educators, but they were right in revolting from...
...report of Dean Pound for the Law School is especially interesting this year because of a full discussion of the curriculum, its adherence to the policy of laying stress upon the fundamental principles of law, as contrasted with giving the students material for immediate use in their practice, and at the same time its adjustment to the changing condition of the times in the selection of the topics through which those principles are taught. The weight laid on principles rather than practice was the essence of Langdell's system. It has made the reputation of the School...
...need for such an institution within a college is undeniable. Drama as a form of literary expression is an important part of education, and the art of writing for the Theatre should have a place in any educational curriculum...
...granting of an S. B. degree to one whose knowledge of science goes no further than a conversational acquaintance with biology or a year's rock tapping amid the glaciers of Nahant remains as an illogical feature of the Harvard curriculum. Originally an academic course was practically synonymous with a classical training and consequently a knowledge of Latin or Greek was a valid requirement for an A. B. degree. This is no longer true, however, and the distinction between the two degrees, based solely on whether the candidate does, or does not, offer an ancient language, has outworn its usefulness...
...Drury, Rector of St. Paul's School. In words characterized by enlightenment and far-sightedness, he has declared the educational systems imposed on boys too inflexible. He believes that the brighter individuals should be allowed time to enjoy the advantages of foreign travel as a part of the curriculum...