Word: curriculum
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Roxbury Latin is the oldest independent, continuously functioning school in the U.S.* Its founder was Preacher John Eliot, famed as the "Apostle to the Indians." Using the English grammar school as a model, he inaugurated the classical curriculum and the spartan, democratic spirit which have been Roxbury earmarks ever since. Roxbury alumni include General Joseph Warren, a onetime headmaster, who sent Paul Revere on his ride, led the fight at Lexington, and was killed at Bunker Hill; James Pierpont, principal founder of Yale; Harvard's great literary scholars, Charles H. Grandgent and George Lyman Kittredge. At one time...
...campus at Hamilton, N.Y., last week, Colgate's faculty met, after months of deep thinking, to put finishing touches to a sweeping new plan for postwar study. Based on an earlier Colgate Plan, the new Core Curriculum is "frankly and deliberately built around a core of [seven] prescribed and intimately related courses" (natural science, public affairs, philosophy and religion, foreign areas and cultures, English communication, the arts, the liberal tradition...
...building formerly used by an undertaker, they set up the Sever Institute of Geophysical Technology, named a dean, planned to install $200,000 worth of equipment, scheduled an $85,000-a-year maintenance budget, and announced themselves ready to accept 180 students of geophysics in the fall. Their curriculum, they declared, would eventually compare favorably with M.I.T.'s. But within a month, St. Louis' Washington University, one of the original claimants, upset this optimistic schedule by a demand for reconsideration...
Bennington College's President Lewis Webster Jones echoed, "In 1945-46 higher education will face the greatest crisis and greatest opportunity in the nation's history. . . . All indications are that the returning veterans will be most eager to . . . work hard on a serious adult curriculum...
...Bennington College's President Lewis Webster Jones: "In 1945-46 higher education will face the greatest crisis and greatest opportunity in the nation's history. . . . All indications are that the returning veterans will be most eager to ... work hard on a serious adult curriculum...