Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although all V-1 and V-7 students will automatically become members of V-12 shortly after the beginning of the summer term, they will not be required to follow the regular V-12 curriculum, Perkins stated...
...Turn the high schools into charm schools. Teach courtesy and grace, the art of dress, dancing, the development of personality and talents, choral singing and personal relationships. There would be no resistance to this kind of curriculum. And after this, two or three years of concentrated history, English, mathematics and languages for those who want these things. And for the others- well, they would at least be as well educated as they are now, and for all of us life would be far more beautiful...
...those sciences, the history and application of the scientific method. A strong policy by the College of recognition of tutoring would help this problem as well as that of manpower; faculty-men would be more willing to tutor if they felt it was an important part of the curriculum, and if their other academic loads were lightened proportionately. Conference groups are an obvious way to lessen the drain on staff members, and, in Sophomore tutorial especially, have proven an excellent introduction to new and broad fields. The question of sanctions is more difficult; but the tutor's authority to exclude...
...Taken Off? Such semestral changes in the Soviet curriculum have not usually been considered open to analysis by foreign correspondents in Russia. Since the U.S.S.R. began, there have been just nine months (April through December, 1939) when representatives of the world press could send dispatches from Moscow without censorship (in 1940 practically hermetic) by the Press Bureau of the Foreign Office. As for the Associated Press or the United Press selling their news services to Russian newspapers, those newspapers just are not in the market. However significant it may be of the actual desire of the people, the provision...
...part of the reforms now being considered, but that does not mean its substance is undesirable. In effect, it is a reiteration of the earlier proposal of the Teachers' Union that parallel liberal arts courses be combined to preserve for the duration as much of the liberal arts curriculum as possible. There have always been classes in the University in which such a combination would have been desirable; the war is only increasing the number of courses in which purely masculine enrollment is insufficient to warrant the Faculty's time and trouble. Admission of Radcliffe students to middle group courses...