Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curriculum Outlined...
...announcement that Harvard's naval training unit will henceforth include infantry drill as a regular part of its curriculum marks a sensible conclusion to a protracted period of controversy with naval headquarters at Washington. The move came as a belated but effective attempt to forestall any possible removal of the naval unit, when it was definitely learned that, in case of war, collegiate naval officers would be drawn exclusively from the six universities, of which Harvard is at the present time one, maintaining training units. Conditions in the University's naval department have not been entirely satisfactory to Washington since...
...certainly less militaristic than a regular standing army, the only alternative: in theory it stands for defense rather than actual warfare. If the Naval Department is to maintain a training unit in Harvard at all, it is futile to argue that any one part of its curriculum is more militaristic than another. Marching is no more martial than a technical knowledge of naval gunnery, and plays at least as important a part in the making of an officer. Furthermore, Naval Science has unfortunately been branded as a snap course, offering an easy grade and, if the undergraduate so desires...
...nothing the appointment of outstanding men as visiting lecturers to the University one can not avoid a feeling of regret that more of these teachers are not to give regular undergraduate courses within the College curriculum. The value to undergraduates of lectureships as opposed to visiting professorships is not to be compared. In the routine of regular college work the average undergraduate has little time for serious attention to outside lectures. Distinguished scholars are swallowed up in the round of college life. Many men today miss the opportunity to sit under these scholars. Visiting professorships would not only mean reaching...
...Curriculum. Freshmen will spend the first year trying to understand "modern western civilization?its literature, its art, its political, economic, and scientific bases." They will have "tool courses"? mathematics, languages?if such instruction seems necessary for work they may later be interested in. "Exploratory courses" will give them some taste of a field in which they may later specialize. Bright students may enter the Senior Division (upperclassmen) after one year of preparation, stupid ones may take three years...