Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems entirely possible, the Rollins experiment goes the way of all flesh and suffers from the lack of that vital infused spirit which transcends all systems, there could be no more stringent method of education than Dr. Holt's. For at Rollins, through the organization of the curriculum, the student is given less responsibility for the planning of his own life than at some of the older and more dreary colleges. And however deadening routine intellectual methods may be, the routine of actual living is more mentally stultifying. It is also conceivable that under less stimulating teachers, Rollins College...
...edifice than the building by that name today. The boys break into a song: The Proctor likes Whiskey. Let's get him frisky-Maybe he will buy drinks for the crowd. . . . As is customary in Triangle shows, the script is peppered with undergraduate lampoons on the Princeton faculty, curriculum and social system, which are more interesting to student audiences and immediate relatives of the cast than to the public at large. A new high is set in Princeton satire, however, with a song which demonstrates how to become a member of one of the better Princeton clubs, particularly...
Until the scope of this course is lessened, it can never be a great attraction to students. Nevertheless, its utility in the college curriculum cannot be denied...
When the details of the House Plan were made public last spring, it was understood that members of the Engineering School were to be excluded from the residences because the curriculum of the School has no connection with the tutorial system. This stand, however, was later temporarily modified, and prospective engineers were admitted into both Dunster and Lowell House. But the University has not as yet made any definite reversal of its original decision, and the present acceptance of applications from Engineering students only continues a hand to mouth policy...
...certain quarters the notion is abroad that going to Johnny Hun's is as integral a part of Princeton's educational program as eating, sleeping, and going to the movies. It is not. Or if it is, the University's underclass curriculum is so unreasonably exacting that it must be changed quickly, and the sooner this truth is known the better. Obviously, this circumstance can never be recognized so long as hordes of men continue to limp through Freshman and Sophomore tests on the crutches of highly paid, eleventh-hour tutors. --Daily Princetonian...