Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president of St. John's, stocky Stringfellow Barr had abolished electives, survey courses, standard texts, and books about books about books. By the time he left in 1947 (he tried and failed to start another St. John's in New England), his Great Books curriculum was the most talked-about experiment in U.S. education. Ever since, educators have been waiting to see just how Barr's St. Johnnies would do after graduation...
...program for this year looks promising. Another group of capable professors have consented to serve without pay, and the curriculum ranges from diplomatic history in the twentieth century to American music. Harvard will be represented by professors Benjamin F. Wright and Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, and Florence Kluckhohn. The administrative stuff is busy now raising the $60,000 budget. A grant of $15,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation helped the drive considerably, but about half of the total is still to be collected...
Council Committee on Curriculum and Tenure, Young Republican Club, Sophomore Track Manager...
Since then he says he has followed the regular order of things: instructor in 1942 and assistant professor in 1945, when he helped revise the curriculum of the Department. Emphasizing personal instruction, he is highly praised by his students for his interest and teaching ability. He now hopes for a General Education course which would stress student participation in music. Choral works from important periods would be sung by members of the course: Plainsong, Ars Nova, the Renaissance, Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. In this way, the students would "get inside the music." Lectures would relate the compositions to the artistic...
...girls who want to go into the professional fields," he says, "the curriculum can be exactly the same as a curriculum for men. But most girls work for a while, then get married and have children. There is need for improvement in education for the days before marriage, and also for preparing for the life of the postgraduate mother-when the children have grown up and left...