Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caribbean Center. Today Miami is a good deal closer to being the "university of the Caribbean" that President Ashe wanted. Its Hispanic-American Institute oversees courses for some 200 South Americans a year, and its regular curriculum places considerable emphasis on South American studies. Its young school of medicine is becoming a center for the study of tropical diseases, and its botanists are pioneering in ways of preserving, shipping and marketing tropical fruits...
Laval Robillard '53 replied that "football is very definitely not part of the college curriculum." Robert Langston '53 contrasted football in terms of the "ethical idea of a university" and the "aesthetic beauty of a good football team," and decided in favor of the present football setup...
...independent graduate school. For the first time in its 33 year history, it had its own Dean and separate facilities, appointed its own faculty, and handled its own budget. Today, after a vast program of expansion and improvement, the student body has tripled, the faculty has tripled, and the curriculum has doubled. The Harvard School of Public Health now leads the public health movement in the United States...
Mainstay of the new cooperation are the Dean's Faculty Research Conference and Curriculum Committees which coordinate some of the school's scattered research programs. Each department still runs itself and must hustle to get its own money, but more and more, individual problems have become school problems. Though inde dependently-minded and involved with his own experiments, the department man takes a world view of public health. He catches the spirit of the Dean who says that Harvard is a "mecca for world health...
First, major loopholes exist in the speech curriculum. There is not even one half-course in argumentation; yet there certainly are hundreds going into government, law, and economics who could use such intensive training. There is not even one half-course in radio; yet Harvard and Radcliffe surely have students interested in radio vocations. There is no faculty member available to coach debate and other extra-curricular speech activities; yet Harvard has debate councils and there are probably students interested in other types of speech contests. In fact, there isn't even a field of concentration in speech, even though...