Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...originally planned, students in the program study a combined liberal arts and law curriculum for seven years and receive both A.B. and L.L.B. degrees at the end of that period. The Administrative Board has been authorized to grant A.B. degrees at the end of four years in exceptional cases...
...Teacher Siepmann has his own ideas. One of six children of a German emigre to England, Siepmann attended Oxford, won the Military Cross in World War I as a British artilleryman in Italy. Pioneer headmaster of one of the Borstal schools for delinquents, where he introduced radio into the curriculum, he joined BBC in 1927, organized radio discussion groups until 1932 when he was made director of talks. Four years later he became program chief...
Astronomy I: "Astronomy is the one field in Harvard in which actual night laboratory work with Radcliffe is included in the curriculum...
...have, however, reached your conclusions with what appears to me to be an inadequate knowledge of the aims of professional education. For example, I doubt if the Harvard Medical School curriculum is "readymade," within the meaning of your term. Its pattern changes too rapidly. Furthermore, there is a closer association between obstetrics and dentistry than you indicate. Obstetrics, unless I am mistaken, is the science and art of pre-natal care and delivery. The teeth discover a proved uterine existence early in embryonic life, a significant circumstance in attempting to control their normal development. We should be concerned as dentists...
...that any educational process has remote as well as immediate objectives. Immediate objectives are always visible and are relatively easily attained. Remote ends are, possibly, of even greater importance, although difficult for any of us fully to comprehend. John W. Cooke '16, Member of committee on instruction, chairman of curriculum committee...