Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Former History 1 students may recall with pain the words "trivium" and "quadrivium." These constituted the standard curriculum at the medieval cathedral schools, a curriculum consisting of grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. Since then higher education has gone on to bigger and better things. Today the Harvard course catalogue lists 53 departments and nearly 1000 courses, and the only commonbond between Harvard graduates is the ability to swim 50 yards...
This is just what the Student Council has done in the past two years. In the fall of 1938, a committee headed by James Tobin '39 and J. Spence Harvin '39 sat down to figure out what ailed the Harvard curriculum. Throughout the year they held weekly sessions often running far into the night, and in June, 1939, they released a 13,000 word report urging the reinstatement of a liberal content at Harvard...
...common playing card" was not an educational material, unceremoniously ended the experiment. His decree threw San Francisco's school system into a furor. Indignant parents formed a committee, circulated petitions, marched to Mr. Nourse's office and demanded that contract bridge be made a part of the curriculum. Besides teaching youngsters 1) citizenship, 2) mathematics, 3) how to think, they declared that contract bridge was necessary to their children's vocational training. Explained Mrs. D. R. Minton: "I feel contract bridge is a social asset for my daughter's later life...
...second place, "the spiritual and ethical content has been exhausted from American education" with the abandonment of the Bible and the Classics as the core of the liberal curriculum. As a result, "our sons are cold to the agonies of the great tradition to which our culture belongs, indifferent to the fate of British democracy, though our national fate is inseparable from it, and are ready to call a policy which will leave our democracy to face totalitarian ruthlessness alone and isolated, a policy or 'realism...
...Harvard the undergraduate's attitude toward the war is the product of many factors. In part it is an idealistic point of view, specifically focussed on America. American culture and civilization have assumed an ever-larger place in the curriculum during the past few years, with President Conant heading the movement at Harvard. Undergraduates have tended to resent any plea to save England or France unless this were the only way to save America...