Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-four Seniors and Juniors have been chosen to the newly-formed Student Council Committee of curriculum and Tenure after having been nominated by their various departmental heads, and will meet Thursday night at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House...
With an agenda swelled by the difficulties of wartime education, the Student Council's Committee on Curriculum and Tenure meet this week to outline possible methods of leveling current obstructions in the accelerated program. In helping to solve problems created by greatly expanded concentration in scientific fields, a shortage of instructors, and a year-round curriculum, the committee can aid the College in its effort to train as efficiently as possible a student body so needed in the nation's war effort...
Where the WAACs will fit into the Army remains to be seen. Some of the subjects now in the curriculum: Army cooking, motor transport, aircraft spotting, close-order drill, use of civilian and military maps, practice in gas mask use, leadership, organization of the Army and the WAAC, methods of training and, above all, company administration and property accountability...
These preflight schools, organized two months ago to make U.S. naval aviators the world's toughest fighters, have attracted 600 of the country's ablest athletic coaches and have launched the most intensive three-month sport program ever undertaken in the U.S. In their curriculum, devised and supervised by onetime Annapolis Football Coach Tom Hamilton, are ten compulsory sports: football, basketball, soccer, wrestling, boxing, tumbling, swimming, track, hand-to-hand, engineering (which means ditch-digging, wood-chopping and other manual labor...
Other appointments to the Curriculum and Tenure Committee were John Richardson, Jr. '43 as Student Council Representative, and Hugh M. Hyde '44 as Junior Chairman. The Committee, which consists of one Junior and Senior from each field of concentration, chosen by the two chairman, makes recommendations to the Faculty, on the approval of the Council, with regard to academic problems. The tutorial system, the rules for concentration and distribution, and the new area fields have been in part at least products of their deliberations...