Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program will be inaugurated about July 1 when men from V-1 and V-7 will be called to active duty as Apprentice Seamen, provided they are able to meet the Navy requirements of curriculum which include compulsory physical drills, swimming and setting up exercises...
...most effective when it reaches its students in small groups where there can be an interplay of ideas, where the undergraduate can actively participate in something more than the examination. But such a-large-scale seminar system is impractical in a college where the enrollment and the curriculum require large courses. Not even Harvard could afford or find the professors necessary for such individual instruction, and where instructors are of the calibre of the average Harvard section man, conferences per se can never succeed. A greater emphasis on the importance and quality of section work is only a partial answer...
...course will cover such present-day problems of education as the curriculum in wartime, new courses in aeronautics, radio and navigation, war problems of guidance, present demands on the personnel of the teaching profession, and the difficulty of maintaining standards during the war and afterwards...
...University also announced that a credit course, "A Guidance Curriculum for Wartime and Reconstruction" would begin on March 31 at the Graduate School of Education with John M. Brewer, associate professor of Education, in charge...
...suggested Allport, that the old idea of liberal education may have to be modified. "Literature and the arts are well worth while," but in some fields like Government, Psychology, and the like, the curriculum may have to be pointed up to compensate for the more practical demands of a more mature class which has already tasted the bitter reality of life...