Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among all the innovations in Chicago University's curriculum which President Hutchins described in yesterday's New York Times, one is outstanding for its radical implications concerning university and professional education. This is the "college", an entirely new educational unit, which prepares men in an unprescribed period for advanced university study or for a professional school...
...chief claims to fame of President Eliot was his development of the Harvard Graduate schools to their present position of importance in the University. Similarly President Lowell will probably be known for his changes in the college curriculum and the institution of the House plan for the undergraduates. That this housing and feeding policy is not confined to the college can be seen by the excellent accommodations afforded the members of the Medical and Business Schools. A special effort on the part of the present regime to provide comfortable quarters and dining rooms for those neglected members...
...that a careful balancing of the two will have to be achieved. Perhaps the prospect of dual meetings between Harvard houses and Yale "colleges" will offer sufficient stimulus to carry on the sports successfully and at the same time in a more sane and proper relation to the college curriculum...
...discussed. The time now expended in vain efforts to conquer Joliet could be more suitably used for the earlier development of ease in translation. This would permit rapid translation from preparatory school methods of conducting the course to the more spirited and individual manner which characterizes the true college curriculum...
Opinions differ as to the real cause for the increased disrespect in which a college degree is held in the business world. Some with considerable justification look to the curriculum; others look to the faculty. Now and then some daring soul points out that the student himself may be to blame. At any rate it is the student who suffers when he steps into the outside world, and it is the student who should take it upon himself to look hardest for remedies, even when he has to shove them down his own throat...