Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well as in letters. True enough, most Harvard men learn how to talk reasonably clearly simply by practicing all the time. But there is enough of a demand for more formal training to indicate that the University should consider a re-evaluation of the importance of speech in its curriculum...
...report of the Graduate Council calls the current Geography lack "a serious gap" in the curriculum, and points to the effect the action has had on other departments of the University. The field was cut down, the report states, at a time when its chances for growth and advancement were excellent...
Calling for "review of the situation" and "more adequate provision to fill the curriculum needs in Geography," the Graduate Council points out that two of last year's Geography staff are now working in higher positions in other universities and says that it is "unfortunate that Harvard . . . should be eclipsed in this field by less favorably situated schools...
Last week Denver's course in folklore was going high, wide & handsome. It now has a firm place in the curriculum. The course is not compulsory, but 420 kids this year begged for the chance to try it. They read all about Bunyan, and how he wept so much when his blue ox Babe fell ill, that his tears formed the Great Salt Lake. Then the kids make maps of Utah...
...other Harvard professors took part in the discussions that followed the opening address. Professor Harry T. Levin '33 spoke on the panel discussing the teaching of the novel, and Professor John Finley, Jr. '25 talked on the relation of ancient and other foreign classics to the present day college curriculum in English. Professor Theodore Spencer, national president of the association, presided over the final meeting at dinner Saturday night...