Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University prefers the first scheme, and what with the tradition and the money bound up in the School, it is not difficult to see why. It's not impossible, says the Administration, pointing to the tailoring job it accomplished on the School of Education. There, by shifting the curriculum from a teachers training affair to the study of school administration, it both shriveled costs to manageable proportions and maintained the School's high rank in educational circles. Why not do the same with Divinity...
Active as it is, the Radcliffe group is small stuff compared with dancers at other women's colleges. At Bennington, for example, modern dance is on the curriculum. Smith and Vassar also have active groups. The 'Cliffe girls' interests seem to go in other directions, however, and their dance group has to make up a comparative deficit in number with energy and serious absorption...
...more intense English public school program and a broader curriculum within the law school, he continued, allow the omission of the four-year college...
These figures furnish sufficient proof that the Davidson formula--a liberal arts curriculum coupled with a highly restricted campus life--succeeds in producing the type of man that the founders of the college desired, a man who will bring a disciplined mind and body to bear on the many problems facing an expanding South.The Chambers building (above) is the focal point of Davidson life. Administrative offices, a large auditorium, and various classrooms and laboratories are contained in the structure, built...
Those educational programs which got off the ground before inflation, however, are progressing nicely. The most important is the "Core Curriculum," Colgate's version of General Education. There is a double difference between the Core and G.E.: everyone must take the same courses and take them in four years instead of two. Whereas G.E. emphasizes the historical roots of society, the Core for the most part trains its sights on the present...