Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cyril G. Sargent, assistant professor of Education, headed the committee, which proposed, along with the increased schooling, several changes in the present curriculum. The Graduate School staff may also help in the designing of two new Junior High School buildings...
Generations of boredom with the Latin and Greek classics have resulted in their virtual disappearance from the U.S. curriculum. Gilbert Highet, Anthon professor of Latin at Columbia University and a popular author (The Classical Tradition, The Art of Teaching) as well as a classical scholar, thinks that dull and stylized teaching is responsible for the students' indifference. This week, talking to the New York Classical Club, Highet explained his criticism. Teaching classics as "perfect books by perfect men," he said, "[will] make them inhuman and impossible for the young...
...priest. For the last two years, he has been Episcopal chaplain at Columbia University. Pike's main job there: building up the almost nonexistent religion department. In two years, he and Religion Professor Ursula (Mrs. Reinhold) Niebuhr of Barnard College have established a joint Columbia-Barnard religion curriculum of 38 courses and 500 students...
...course itself, required of all seniors, tries to give a classroom approach to newsroom techniques. Part of it concerns itself with teaching students how to read and compare newspapers. Because of its range, the course has sometimes been called radical, but no attempt to erase it from the curriculum has yet been made...
...free enterprise thought. Selecting judicious quotes, he demonstrates that all the texts in Economics 10 preach government control in varying degrees. Marx, Hitler, Laski, Huxley, and Dewey are propounded without any intelligent reports by philosophy professors. No teacher at Yale goes unscathed by the author's analysis of the curriculum...