Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter sent last night to all the undergraduates in the Department announced that a report on the problems of curriculum and tenure raised by the issue will be prepared for the meeting and that some discussion of those problems is necessary...
...refusal to reappoint these two men leaves a serious gap in the Department's curriculum, providing no expert tutors in the period from the fall of Rome to the eighteenth century," the letter sent out yesterday stated...
...feel that those students most affected by the dismissals should meet to consider their effect; and that they should attempt to find some way in which the students can play a greater role in solving problems of curriculum and tenure...
Harvard, too, agreed, in principle, and joined in the experiment. It did not, however, change the requirement of three examinations chosen from a number of "academic" subjects, in addition to the English exam. Thus it prescribed the curriculum of these courses, and seriously hampered the development of new programs of study, especially in the senior years of high school. Most pupils are in small high schools, with a limited number of courses. Only one out of every six goes to college. Examinations in set academic subjects, then, force the curriculum to adapt itself to the needs of the minority...
...without any special prospects, when something as sudden as had been the chance meeting with Bekmeteff happened to him. Archibald Coolidge, whom he had befriended at the Paris Peace Conference, asked him to come to Harvard and teach a course in Russian history which was being introduced into the curriculum. Professor Lord, who was originally to have given it, went into the Catholic ministry at the last minute. So with little more than two weeks' notice, and even less teaching experience, Karpovitch joined the Harvard faculty in the year...