Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work and made a glass the equal of Germany's to the incalculable benefit of the government. In 1923, Dr. Stratton devoted himself to the future of American engineering by taking over the headship of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was his achievement to bring the curriculum into more close relationship with industry. The Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory is only one of his many additions...
...dean from 1907 to 1924 of the School of Fine Arts at Chicora College for Women in Columbia, S. C. During the year 1928-29 he substituted for Professor George Sherman ("Dickey") Dickinson in music courses at Vassar Collegeildings in fashionable Rittenhouse Square, will take care of the curriculum, edit the Institute's monthly Overtones. Like his predecessor, Dean Grace H. Spofford who resigned to do radio-educational work, he is subordinate to Director Josef Hofmann who also heads the piano department. The Institute was founded in 1924 by Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Other department heads at Curtis: oldtime...
There should be at least one Babbitt course in every Harvard man's curriculum if only because he is Harvard's most honouredd prophet in every country but his own. This particular one carries on the good only family fond; Babbitt, I., vs. Rousseau et al. You'll enjoy Les Confessions (the English editions are expurgated) along with an apple and a fire on a few could autumn evenings; and when spring rolls around there's La Neuvelle Heloise to be read aloud on the shores of Walden Pond. You'll learn all about conchiliomania (a disease...
...reviews published yesterday and today under the Confidential Guide, members of the Freshman Class have been able to read serious criticisms of the courses among which they will be expected to choose during the next few days. Usually one's curriculum must be guided by the language or distribution requirements, but within these limits there is generally some range. In certain key courses, essential to fields of concentration, no amount of detraction could lessen the enrollment. Yet a carefully reasoned criticism, given undergraduate support, may frequently receive official consideration. It is for this reason that such courses have been treated...
When preferences in courses are possible, they may be indicated, but there is no particularly preferred or recommended curriculum. Instead, each review embodies the opinion of an individual or a small group of persons, which may or may not coincide with universal judgments. When a Freshman is confronted with a wide selection of courses, no opinion can be more helpful for making a decision than that of one who his recently taken the course...