Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Advantageous as these departmental buildings, it is difficult to regard them as other than useful adjuncts to the University--as distinct from what Dean Gauss, in his telegram to the Yale News, terms as the College. Princeton must not let her excellent equipment and curriculum blind herself to her own social problems. The same evils which Harvard and Yale are taking drastic steps to eliminate exist here. We cannot adopt a similar remedy though it might be advisable to plan future dormitories with that eventuality in view--but we can at least learn valuable lessons from the experiments at Cambridge...
...Many of our most hidebound notions about the curriculum are the results of accidental happenings back in the sixteenth century. . . . What the ordinary curriculum today represents is simply the accumulated debris of the past three or four hundred years of hit-or-miss instruction...
...finals of the Ames Competition held last night in Langdell Hall, mark the end of the twentieth year of student debate between the various clubs of the School. Although these organizations have been a part of the curriculum for the last century, the present system is primarily a result of student interest, paralleling the activities of the Law Review, though widening in scope to include all of the first-year class and the winning competitors in the other...
...importance of the Ames Competition is not so much that one club has finally emerged from the welter of round-robin debates after a three-year period of trial cases. It lies more in a recognition of the part the Law Clubs have played in the Law School's curriculum. The value of practical forensic discussion is readily attested by the interest of prominent lawyers in the "straw" decision handed down by leading justices of the nation serving as arbiters in the final arguments. The definite need of practical experience combined with legislative theory is well filled by the Ames...
...which appears in the current number of the American Magazine, is not a new one. The points that he raises are almost universally recognized as needing adequate reform and have been well threshed over time and again. His chief suggestion based on the time wasted in a four-year curriculum, is that the universities should teach the student only that which interests him and which equips him for his chosen profession; specialization should begin after the second year...