Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's "groping for a core subject," said Winspear, "is in reality a groping for a satisfactory synthesis of all [the] reactionary programs of retreat." Winspear generously offered his own idea of a core curriculum: Karl Marx...
Everybody's doing it. Harvard plans to abolish the free elective system. Colgate has rebuilt its curriculum around a "core" of seven required courses. In Yale's "Experimental Program," students take prescribed courses for the first two years. The postwar educational models differ somewhat in chromium extras, but in one way all are alike: students will have less chance at the wheel than their immediate predecessors...
Advanced Army Reserve Officers' Training in its pre-war form will be reinstated in the academic curriculum starting next term, Dean Buck announced this week. Its two-fold purpose now will be to provide junior officers for the post war army and to expand the training corps organization in anticipation of post war needs...
...Report does," claimed Mortimer J. Adler, Professor of Law and author of "How to Read a Book," is show the way the wind's blowing. There's nothing radical about it--I can name ten liberal arts schools which have gone further--it's merely adopting a more integrated curriculum...
...General Education experiment will be in the hands of the students," asserted Benjamin F. Wright, chairman of the Government Department and a member of the General Education Committee, Tuesday night in a forum designed to familiarize students with the effects the educational proposals will have on the curriculum...