Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herzog declared that the principal difference between the institutions is the curriculum. The college covers only the first two years of college life, and the curriculum is concerned more with the beginnings of a liberal education than with the partial specialization that is emphasized at Harvard. The curriculum embraces the study of Greek civilization of the Age of Pericles in the freshman year and contemporary modern civilization in the sophomore year...
...Stephen's College, a division of Columbia University, has thrown its hat into the educational ring by announcing that henceforth St. Stephen's will fit a separate curriculum to each individual student. While Harvard and Yale are wrangling over the social side of student life, St. Stephen's and Chicago University are going to bring out a new model of college curriculum. This college in Columbia is casting aside both the old theory of "curriculum for the average student" and the plan of permitting the student to choose his own courses of study. The faculty will have complete control...
...second; and perhaps more valid objection, is the inadvisability of introducing the subject into the secondary school curriculum. Culture, as a vocation, has been greatly, and justly, ridiculed. But it is still a very desirable attribute. It lies entirely within the province of the preparatory school to establish a ground work for culture. If college is to continue as an educational and not a vocational institution, the schools must also, for the college is dependent upon them...
...general, though to a less marked degree, this is the attitude assumed by most of the universities and colleges which have undertaken educational reform. The emphasis has been taken off mass instruction and has been placed upon the individual. With all this stress upon the revision of curriculum few universities have attempted social reform as well. Harvard has tried it, and Yale and Princeton are following in her footsteps though more cautiously. But up to now no college has had the courage to effect both an educational and a social reorganization at the samo time...
Yesterday, however, it was announced that Chicago was to inaugurate along with its new inflexible curriculum a house plan that conforms in physical make-up to the Harvard plan. President Hutchins does not say, however, that the idea is to create a new democratic feeling among his students. He does not hope that it will bring about a cross-section among his students. He does hope, and confidently believes, that his house plan will bring a greater freedom and contact between student and teacher. It is a ramification of the university's effort to place greater emphasis upon the individual...