Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully tutored in the ultimate objectives of concentration and distribution. The undergraduate who is carefully advised and sets up a precise balance between general and specialized courses can often realize the full value of the current program. For the man that receives little help in planning his curriculum and loses sight of the ideals of the system, concentration and distribution may fail in its purpose...
...honors, he would be inclined to place a heavy value on concentration under the existing system. Charged with extensive preparation for General Examinations, the undergraduate often feels bound to take the maximum number of courses in his field. A brilliant man can thus unconsciously sacrifice the principles of the curriculum to the cause of Cum Laude...
...minimum of friction, a minimum of mistakes. They stand as interpreters of the University, not as mere representatives of its rule books. When a Freshman arrives full of eagerness to plunge into his field of concentration, such an adviser shows him the pitfalls of a narrow first year curriculum. When a Freshman is doubtful of the line his college career will take, this adviser attempts to aid him, to guide him, to keep him from wasting precious months and precious courses heading up a dead-end program...
Through it they hope to eliminate discrimination in U.S. education; they hope to set up student governments in schools lacking them. By using the N.S.A. as a coordinator, the students in the nation can trade suggestions on curriculum; can unite to work for federal aid to secondary education; can organize a nation wide job-seeking service
Perhaps in the wake of such a relevant area of undertaking, activity geared to the needs of the day has taken its place within even the undergraduate curriculum at Princeton. The School of Public and International Affairs, soon to be renamed the Woodrow Wilson School of Government, strives to prepare the student seeking entrance professionally into Federal bureaus or the State Department...