Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counsellors will hold essay contests and weekly discussion groups, beginning next week, and will be available daily for conferences with Yardlings interested in American Civilization, whether within or without the curriculum...
Miss Ruutz-Rees put her girls through a rigorous classical curriculum, teaching them Vergil herself. She horrified parents, who feared their daughters might develop "unsightly muscles," by introducing athletics. First Rosemary sport was cricket, but Rosemarians could find no worthy opponents, took up basketball, track and field hockey instead. Now they play Yale freshman teams at hockey, once beat them...
Polling will be conducted in the House Dining Halls, the Union, Dudley Hall, Emerson and Harvard Hall all day Tuesday. The result will to a large extent determine the magnitude of the curriculum made available by the League...
...moves on the campus cited include numerous incidents of administrative reprisals against critics of the national defense program, the institution of compulsory ROTC units, the military service pledge now required of C. A. A. students, and curtailment of the curriculum...
...reaction against this educational specialization in American universities, Chicago and Columbia have set up survey courses designed to insert a minimum "common content" into the curriculum, and at St. John's College in Maryland the hundred-best-books course has been instituted. At Harvard the reversion to a curricular common denominator has had only faint beginnings. Two years ago a Student Council committee urged "the restoration of a liberal education at Harvard." Most striking proposal of their lengthy report was the suggestion that five "introductory area courses"--two in the humanities, two in the sciences, and one in the social...