Word: curriculum
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Like the Swarthmore situation, there exists a situation at Harvard that apparently involves the remnants of 17th century mores. The College has never offered a course dealing specifically and directly with sex, an omission in the curriculum that can be found in few other major colleges in the country. Yesterday a younger organization than Harvard College, and one consequently less burdened by the last three hundred years, tactfully approached this matter. The organization was the Radcliffe Student Council, and its idea was that some sort of marriage course for Radcliffe girls should be instituted in the fall term. Yale...
Marriage lectures and discussion groups will be included in the Radcliffe curriculum next term if a proposal entertained at yesterday's session of the 'Cliffe Student Council goes into effect. Investigation of the suggested series was left to a committee including Drs. Veronica B. Tisza and Dorothy G. McLead, college physicians, and several Council members...
...names," the Music Department, year after year, has displayed competence, energy, and imagination unsurpassed anywhere in the College. It has frequently sponsored unusual events of national interest. The Faure Festival two years ago, and last year's Symposium on Music Criticism exemplify this extra-curricular activity. And within its curriculum, the department offers both a first-rate selection of courses and a first-rate faculty...
...buildings were going up in the Yard, and the village of Cambridge had begun its change into a modern industrial city. Eliot's reforms in the College curriculum had for the first time in Harvard's history allowed the students elective courses, instead of the entirely prescribed program of former years...
Dress as You Please. Rugby's 620 boys nowadays come mainly from upper-class professional and mercantile families (the peerage prefers Eton and Harrow.). In contrast to the formal Eton attire and classic Eton curriculum, Rugbeians may dress in tweeds, flannels or what they please, take their pick of vocational (woodworking, shorthand) as well as traditional studies...