Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course in drafting, as such, is offered since the amount of drawing required as part of the present curriculum is considered sufficient. Fine Arts courses here for the most part are probably worse than no help in understanding the School's modern approach to design...
Wassily F. Leontief, professor of Economics, and Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, will also be participating in the six week curriculum. Pete Seeger, who gave an American folk song recital in Emerson Hall last February 27 for the Food Relief Drive, has also agreed to present our national folk traditions to the seminar...
...curriculum was too tough for many of the boys & girls, whose tested I.Q. averaged only 100. (The local gag was that anybody who couldn't make the grade in school could always get a job at the Los Alamos labs that paid more than teacher got.) And as Los Alamos expanded, more & more schoolkids were the children of maintenance men, carpenters, shopkeepers and other nonscientists, who wanted more vocational courses and a more "progressive" education...
...Drawing is necessary for everybody's education; it should be part of every school curriculum. And with a base of drawing you can easily master later any calligraphy, including the most ornamental, Chinese signs...
...round-the-clock grind factory. This is no easy task, with graduate schools expecting their peak demand for admission to last longer than in the College. Nonetheless, a greater emphasis on activities, more efficiently run activities, a Student Activities Center--in general, more official interest in the extra-curriculum, might help to alleviate what it known, in quotes, as "student apathy...