Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration. He was one of the authors of the 1945 Harvard report, General Education in a. Free Society (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945). As chairman of Harvard's Committee on General Education, he has spent the last three years in charge of an experimental program to divide the freshman curriculum into three balanced spheres: the humanities and the natural and social sciences...
...reorganization does not mean these the University is abolishing its engineering curriculum. "The change was made," President Conant explained, "in recognition of the close relationship between engineering, and the sciences and mathematics from which it springs...
...roared Angell) rose to take their places among the finest in the U.S., and when the school of the fine arts won so many Prix de Rome that the prize got to be known as the Prix de Yale. Angell cut across department barriers to give undergraduates an integrated curriculum. Under him, Yale began its system of residential colleges, started its university press and the Yale Review...
...first thrills wore off, a split occurred in the student body on the issue of the value of athletics. Half remained convinced that "naught but study should enter into a student's curriculum," and looked with disdain upon the gym fiends who went merrily on their athletic way. It was not until 1925 that athletics became a school requirement, and only in 1942 was it extended to its present two 1 year requirement...
...longer possible to draw a sharp line of distinction between questions of public and private law," Fuller states. Thus, the purpose of the new reforms is to achieve "greater coordination in the curriculum between public and private...