Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty report was only one symptom of a growing dissatisfaction among the faculty with Eliot elective and hyperfree curriculum. The faculty opposition was led by Professor Lowell and when Eliot resigned in 1909, Lowell was chosen president...
...explained his aim in the system of Concentration and Distribution. "First to require every student to make a choice of electives that will secure a systematic education based on the principles of knowing a little of everything and something well. . .and second to make the student plan his college curriculum seriously and plan it as a whole...
...other big reform introduced by Lowell was the system of the General or Divisional examination, also aimed at integrating the student's curriculum. Lowell did not require departments to adopt the General Examination system, but History, Government and Economics did in 1919, Modern Languages in 1922 and the other soon followed...
When Lowell resigned in 1933 he left a curriculum which tempered Eliot's elective system with his own system of Concentration and Distribution. To President Conant was left the adaptation of this curriculum to the needs of the modern mid-twentieth century world. Conant's "General Education" plan, which replaced the old Concentration, Distribu- tion scheme, was really an extension of it. It sought to mitigate Eliot's elective system by requiring the student to take a full-year introductory course in each of the three main divisions of learning, the Humanities, the Social Sciences and the Natural Sciences...
...Chicago Maroon as I understand them, with those I recall from my own days at The CRIMSON--I hope the latter not too clouded by nostalgia. Today it seems hard to get people out to work on a paper at a University like this, where they feel that the curriculum and the academic subjects are all important and that they can learn more in theclassroom that matters than outside it. This tends to leave the initiative, in college journalism, to those who have some ideological axe to grind, and may be one partial explanation for the Stalinoid complexion...