Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Harvard is a University--a University which prides itself on the vitality of its undergraduate curriculum and the favorable opportunities afforded for the development of undergraduate life. In America today a young man when he has completed his school course, has a wide range of choice in regard to the next step in his education. He may decide to enroll in an institution of technology or a military academy; he may choose to enter a small college or to become an undergraduate in a university. If his choice falls on a university rather than on a college...
...American university is the wide range of instruction offered to undergraduates. Almost all academic disciplines are available to the second-year man, at least, and each subject may be pursued through advanced courses almost to the frontiers of knowledge. In Harvard the same faculty has jurisdiction over the undergraduate curriculum and the work of the graduate student in Arts and Sciences. In many departments there is no line dividing the ambitious senior from the first-year graduate student...
...CRIMSON, the sixteenth annual Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses is being mailed free of charge to all members of the class of 1944. In it is given a great deal of material on courses open to Freshmen, in the hope that new students may better decide on their curriculum for this year...
...Council's most important reports in the past two years have dealt with the same subject: the state of Harvard education. The first report, published in the spring of 1939, urged that Harvard's curriculum be broadened and undergraduate specialization decreased. Later reissued in printed form, this report has been sent to colleges and universities all over the country, and served as the basis for discussion at several Faculty meetings last year...
Last week a committee of ten distinguished U. S. educators, appointed by the American Youth Commission to chart a new curriculum for U. S. high schools, repeated history by echoing Ben Franklin's proposals. The committee's report, What the High Schools Ought to Teach, was described by A. Y. C.'s Director Floyd W. Reeves as "one of the most important contributions to secondary education of this generation...