Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here is where the classics come in. But it is a mistake to think of the classics only in the dead-languages sense; Latin and Greek are in the curriculum of the first two years only, along with a stiff dose of science. Languages are studied for the mental exercise they give, and most of the works are read in translation. A classic then means an original and irreplaceable work of human thought...
...abolished. In its place are five hours of language tutorial and five hours of mathematics tutorial each week. Every student also attends at least three hours of laboratory per week. The St. John's men don't even bother to answer the criticism of those who say that the curriculum is not scientific. They simply point out that no other liberal arts college in the country requires four years of laboratory work, and illustrate with the fact that the Johns Hopkins Medical School, one of the country's best, will admit any graduate of the New Program. The first will...
...Hutchins is chairman of St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors, St. John's is not his creature to do with as he wishes. It was pointed out to us that there is less of Hutchins' Aristotelian-Thomist bias than he would probably like to have in the curriculum, and that he probably disapproved of the laboratory repetition of scientific experiments from Eucltd to Mendel. The 25 teachers at St. John's who guide the destinies of 125 students (half the college's capacity) have their own ideas...
Caney Junior College is a professional, not simply a vocational school. Although most of its graduates go out with teachers' certificates, its staff of 18 college-trained instructors give full premedical, -engineering and -dental courses, as well as the customary arts curriculum. The library (a converted barn) has 22,000 volumes...
Defending the proposed "introductory area courses" and hitting out at recent suggestions that vocational education be made part of the college curriculum, Blair Clark '40 last night issued a statement on behalf of the Student Council Committee on Education, of which he is chairman...