Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among composition courses, Professor Hurlbut's English 31 has long been unique. Its efficacy has been attested by the large number of writers to whom it furnished the necessary fundamental training. His death leaves a gap in the curriculum which at the present, time threatens to be permanent. Although this particular course is not a preparation for the inevitable examinations it fills a need that is quite as important in that it offers a definite foundation for a career...
...revision of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Commercial Science granted by the Graduate School of Business Administration is a timely replacement for the outmoded degree. During the existence of the Business School the advance in the rest of the curriculum, such as the application of research to business, the installation of the Tutorial System, and the correlation of the separate fields, have made the Doctor's Degree obsolete. The new requirements are a logical step to its rejuvenation...
...change announced yesterday in the modern language requirements for the bachelor's degree of Columbia College is very much in line with the new attitude with which educators are regarding the place of languages in the college curriculum. Similar to the system now in vogue at Harvard, the new requirements emphasize the cultural value of French and German, relegating the purely technical aspects of language study to the secondary school where they rightly belong...
...institutions of higher learning the lecture continues. "Secondary schools are handicapped, then, because of the expectation that they shall prepare for higher education of academic kinds more students than are fit to profit by it. They handicap themselves by inculcating in their students a conviction that much of their curriculum is of value only as a preparation for further study in the remote future, that man never is, but always (is) to be blest...
...Briggs has made a long study of secondary education and has published two books, entitled "The Junior High School" and "Curriculum Problems". His practical experience includes several years as a teacher in public and private secondary schools. He was for a short time an instructor in Stetson University and later taught in the Eastern Illinois State Normal School. He associated himself with the faculty of Teachers College in 1912. The Inglis lecture for 1929 was given by Dr. G. S. Counts, also Professor of Education at Teachers College...