Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Changes recorded in the departments of Harvard are the dissolving of the Bussey Institute of Applied Biology and the addition of a new department in the Law School. The latter is called the Curriculum for Correctional Administration, a special field for graduate students for the training of probation officers which is new this year and boasts an enrollment of one individual. The Bussey Institute is now part of the Biological Institute and loses its independence as a separate graduate school...
...allow special rules to the college candidate of special abilities. Such a course allows the student to concentrate on fields of interest, rather than to spread his knowledge over vast areas of unrelated materials. It allows him to enjoy some of the liberal advantages of the new curriculum while he is still at school. If consistency is of any value, Yale too ought to make concessions similar to the ones reported above, for such concessions would be simple extensions of the ideas now to be found in the new course of study...
...There were giants in those great days- "Stan" Keck, "Al" Wittmer, "Hank" Garrity, Don Lourie, Herb Treat, Ed McMillan, "Pink" Baker,- Howell van Gerbig- and Princeton's alumni were happy. But then Princeton began taking itself seriously as an intellectual centre, a place to train the mind. Its curriculum and entrance requirements were stiffened. Learning was made more real. A new seriousness, almost philosophical, came over the undergraduates-and Princeton began los- ing football games. The alumni were happy no longer...
...promote equality among men is shown in an article by President Lowell in the November issue of the Harvard Teachers Record, published for the first time this year by the Graduate School of Education. In "Democracy, Equality, and Education," President Lowell points out the fact that in any fixed curriculum, the divergence between the pupils of greater and less ability shown itself very clearly, with the result that the weaker feel how great an effort they must make to keep up, tend to give up the struggle, and leave school. Thus the selective process proceeds automatically by elimination...
Although the conference tries to prevent standardization in the colleges, it is expected that athletic eligibility rules, and the general policies in curriculum will be discussed. The conference will dine as a body tonight in the dining room of the Society, and will have luncheon at Leverett House tomorrow. Many of the delegates will spend the night at the various houses...