Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is a pressing need nowadays for professionalization of the work of those who administer penal and correctional institutions, departments of probation, parole boards and other public and private agencies dealing with delinquency and criminality. Recognizing this fact the Law School Institute has developed an experimental project for a Curriculum for Correctional Administrators, designed to prepare men of character and special capacity for positions of leadership in correctional work and for research in the field of criminalistics...
...curriculum covers two years of intensive theoretical and practical work, and consists of pertinent courses at the Law School and in other departments of the University. The student body will be limited to candidates whose records are especially promising of success in the correctional field, either as administrators or research workers. The first class will consist of a small group of carefully-selected college graduates who will begin their studies and training in the fall...
...chief features of the Norton Professorship is that the donator has left room for a liberal interpretation of its provisions. Although in the past the lectures have varied wided between poetry and art, the subjects themselves have not been ones which were entirely new to the Harvard curriculum. This fact, of course, did not necessarily tend to lessen their interest of value. However when such a relatively unappreciated field as Icelandic literature is brought before the public, it is an indication that the Norton lectures will become of still further service in the coming winter. There are few opportunities...
...white haired Dean Williams, who has relinquished none of his supervision over it since being elevated to the presidency this year. Oldest journalism school in the world (1908) it is rated by some as the best because: 1) it has the most graduates in the profession and 2) its curriculum is undoubtedly the most comprehensive-everything from advertising to photoengraving. The school's small town atmosphere prepares more small town editors than metropolitan, which is doubtless as it should be since most big city papers are training schools in themselves...
...which Columbia is new establishing. The intramural teams are governed by the same director as the University teams. Its success augurs well for its future at Columbia. It is only reasonable that athletics, which have assumed so important a roll in college life, should be included in the college curriculum. The system of divorcing the mental from the physical education adopted at so many colleges, leads to antagonism and inefficiency. Columbia has succeeded in uniting those two branches of American education in what should prove a most satisfactory method...