Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During and after the reign of the late, 13th Dalai Lama, China and England jockeyed for influence in Tibet. The Chinese established a radio station and a school (said the China Year Book: "The curriculum of the school consists principally of Chinese and commonsense"). The British put in another radio station (which worked better than the Chinese) and established a diplomatic mission, headed at present by a capable civil servant, Basil john Gould...
...each week about her studies, her dates, her worries. First thing a girl does is to take an "explanatory course" (e.g., "Literature and Society"), to help her decide what to study. Freshmen also may take a course called "Opinions and Prejudices," to discover their own. Sarah Lawrence's curriculum offers students many an unusual course: the modern dance, problems in social philosophy, Indian arts, a practical course on marriage. The college has no chapel. Instead, students discuss such topics as "Why I am an Episcopalian...
...study of Freshman curriculum, made by the Board, shows that over 40% of the present Freshman class include no course in the Natural Sciences (including Mathematics); that about 37% contain no course in the Social Studies (including Anthropology and Psychology); and that (unless English A and an elementary foreign language, which are practically prescribed for most Freshmen, are included) about 23% include no course in Humanities...
...Council rejects the notion that for the accomplishment of these aims one curriculum is as good as another so long as it is well taught. To become acquainted with the common tradition of human experience, the student must be required to expose himself to the broad areas of knowledge. To develop independent intellectual tools, he must be encouraged to pursue thoroughly some limited field of learning. In other words, there is a definite content to liberal education; and the present failure of Harvard College is that it supplies the specialized part of this content to the neglect of the general...
...Unauthorized and unofficial accounts of a new plan of dental education at Harvard have appeared," Dean Miner said, "and rumors have been spread about that Harvard was contemplating drastic changes in the curriculum of its Dental School, that would all but eliminate, in its present form, this seventy-year-old division of Harvard...