Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems that Harvard will always have the non-scholarly as well as the scholarly student. Undoubtedly the C man has a place; he is the spine of the extra-curricular activities, which in their way are as essential to college life as the curriculum. It is usually the C man who desires a broad education, but it is doubtful whether he would sacrifice concentration and tutorial-regardless of how little time he gives them-for a backward system based merely on course credits. No matter how intellectually incurious is a student, he prefers personal to mob instruction in theory, though...
...study of English grammar and composition will be made much more intensive as a requirement for freshman classes, Teachers College at Columbia burst into print yesterday with a story to the effect that a course in the "Technique of Fresh Water Angling" is to be added to the curriculum of that institution--which already has courses in poultry raising, baseball and piano tuning...
After excellent training abroad and a brief career as an organ virtuoso, Paine became director of music here in 1862. When President Eliot took over the reins in 1869, music was given an especially important role in the revised curriculum. In 1875 Paine was promoted to a full professorship, which was the first chair in music at an American university. As a composer, he was especially versatile, turning out many symphonies, tone poems, operas, overtures, and cantatas. In the present display are included copies of his "Columbus March and Hymn" for the 1893 World's Fair, his "Harvard Hymn...
...school adequately to continue to perform this function, broadening of its approach to legal issues and of the content of its curriculum is essential...
...Curriculum Committee will study the problem of correlating the work of the Law School with the University as a whole, in such fields as economics, psychology, medicine, and government...