Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time there has been a growing unrest in the educational world. Material evidence of this has been given in the progressive reforms of such colleges as Yale, Rollins, and Wisconsin. Chicago, for a long time, has been a leader in the movement for a less mechanized and more liberal curriculum...
Much time is being devoted at present to the selection of half courses for the spring semester. Despite the abolition of them at Yale and the vague talk of their being generally done away with there are many reasons why these diminutive members of the curriculum should be retained...
...bequest in the wills of C. F. Depew, Sr. and C. F. Depew, Jr. This gift should be particularly timely in view of the progressive Eli program exemplified by the Quadrangle system, now in the process of construction, and the recently announced reorganization of the curriculum. If this policy is to be continued it is probable that money will be needed to remedy the first dislocating effect that often is the inevitable corollary of progress...
...third group attempts to understand the potential educational worth of the examination and tries to discover how the entire curriculum in English can be systematically strengthened by intelligent use of intelligently constructed examinations--school tests and longer papers of the essay type--given at suitable intervals...
...most interesting phases of the discussion appears when the curriculum is brought into question. In every case, progressive commentators deplore "the principle of immediate utility" and advocate less emphasis on the acquisition of "mere facts" at the expense of thinking and the application of knowledge. Yet, the University must influence the world, and the world is governed by utility. The twentieth century with its emphasis on speed and utility is not an age of leisure. A University that promotes knowledge only for cash utility accepts this typical modern imposition. The difficulty arises when nonfactual culture is demanded together with...