Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons for the decision to play no intercollegiate games are that the weather in Cambridge is expected to be too stifling for highly tense competition with other colleges and also that the concentrated curriculum of the summer school will not leave much room for extracurricular activities...
...Agucs Wahi Nieman, in memory of her husband, Luctus W. Nioman, founder of the Milwankee Journal. The atipends very according to each man's salary, and the plan is designed to promote journalism by giving the reciplents opportunity for unrestricted study of many subjects in the University's curriculum...
...years there, Dean Donham has seen and made many changes. In 1919 Harvard's Graduate School of Business consisted of 19 students (some under-graduate), a bookkeepers' curriculum, no classrooms of its own, no library, no prestige. It accurately reflected the low esteem accorded to business by U.S. educators generally. In that year, memorable for its epidemic of violent strikes, Harvard's President A. Lawrence Lowell handed over the Business School to a chubby, 41-year-old Yankee, Wallace Donham. Commented one professor on the decrepit state of the school: "We were a faculty of crocks teaching...
...course, has intensified such speculation. President Conant, ex-Dean Donham, numerous other authorities and experts, and Mrs. Roosevelt have taken a whack at the problem. One of the most recent, as well as one of the best whacks, was taken by the Student Council Committee on Curriculum and Tenure in yesterday's report. Yet from all these source a common danger begins to become apparent. The battle of words for "the preservation of a liberal education" is safely won, but the ranting continues to rage and center about this slogan. The symbol is being mistaken for the problem itself...
...their education makes every college an American training camp, for it recognizes that only the colleges can provide the highly trained manpower necessary to lead the modern army. American education must arm itself to face this challenge. Preparation for a democratic offensive must take its place in the curriculum...