Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minimum of understanding, they would have discovered an author more cognizant of the ills of humanity than many a more recent writer and would have found him a champion of moderation and toleration of all types. Far from advocating the banning of Chaucer's poetry from the curriculum, Local 555 would do well to reverse its position and urge that the Canterbury Tales be read more widely...
...Undergraduate Organizational Committee on the Report said last night that their plans for publicizing the proposals in the College would be affected only to a minor degree by early passage or rejection of the Report. A vote of approval will not mean immediate adoption of the General Education curriculum, and some observers anticipate major revisions between acceptance and application of the Report's proposals...
Last week he was inaugurated as president. He hopes to condense his small college's unwieldy curriculum, substituting ten majors for the present 30-odd, on the theory that small liberal colleges spend too much time aping their big brothers, the universities. But for himself, President Gould plans no changes. He refused to move into the presidential mansion. Asked if he was through exploring, he said: "My God, I hope not. . . . Exploration ... is the physical expression of man's intellectual longing." And he will continue to wear red ties...
Last week Schuman planned his first reform: the addition of courses like sociology and race-relations to Juilliard's harmony and counterpoint curriculum. This, he hopes, will "make responsible adults of musicians." He explained: "Right now, when we need musical leaders in every community, we are concerned only with training virtuosi for a nonexistent market. Musical education has to be ventilated. We must develop educated people who are musicians in order to develop music...
Barzun criticizes as a "philosophic misunderstanding" the Committee's failure to find a satisfactory place for the natural sciences in the general education curriculum...