Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concretely, it would mean closer cooperation with colleges and universities not only throughout the country, but in the region of New England, on such matters as student housing, academic standards, curriculum, discrimination in education, increasing the G.I. subsistence payment in proportion to family size...
Taylor conceded that "in the work of the past [there are] clues for dealing with the present" but argued that "an exclusive concern [with] the classical curriculum has failed in the past and will fail today. ... It may be that education is not a strong enough social tool to maintain the survival of civilization. However, one can look for more in it than Mr. Hutchins' pious hope that if we go down, we will go down talking...
...subpanel on curricular reform showed an awareness of this need when it urged the establishment of a uniform "permanent operating mechanism" in the form of a curriculum committee in each student council. On an organized basis students night work with faculty in the evolution of study materials on the basis of cooperatively-gathered information on curricular developments. Perhaps the most tangible suggestion in this connection with which the commission can deal in that for investigating the manner one coherent course presentation could strike into the controversial questions of the era. Dartmouth's "Great Issues" experiment will be easily observable evidence...
...those more intrepid students who desire flight training, there is hope in pending legislation, which would allocate funds enabling Senior ROTC men to obain solo hours at private flying schools. Graduates of the newly inaugurated curriculum who want to get from desk to control panel will have a priority second only to West Pointers in the national training program for flying officers...
...those more intrepid students who desire flight training, there is hope in pending legislation which would allocate funds enabling senior R.O.T.C. men to obtain solo hours at private flying schools, Graduates of the newly inaugurated curriculum who want to get from desk to control panel will have a priority second only to West Pointers in the national training program for flying officers...