Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students of all countries quickly find a common language. They are interested in curriculum programs, student organizations, scholarships...
...thus Islam's most famous center of learning was born. Al-Azhar weathered the crusades, but fell into academic stagnation after the Ottoman Turks occupied Egypt in 1517. For three centuries it knew no other role than to be the official interpreter of the Koran. There was no curriculum; a sheik simply sat by his favorite pillar and waited for students. If none showed up, he moved...
...phrase "broadly liberal" comes from the college catalogue, which itself defines the emphasis: "limitation of the amount of specialization safeguards the broadly liberal purpose of the four-year undergraduate curriculum." This is a double-edged ideal; for, despite the increasing numbers of its graduates who go on to take higher degrees, Wellesley itself gently discourages the academic. The Wellesley girl may not be narrow; but on the other hand there is the danger which Malcolm Cowley pointed out in the Harvard of 1915--that "culture was something to be acquired, like a veneer...
Attitude is elusive; one instructor at Wellesley, a Harvard alumnus, characterized it as a "cult of gentility." It is manifested in rules, in curriculum, and in the faculty itself. Smoking is permitted in the halls of Administration buildings--for visitors. Again, a recent student request to go to the college PX shop, The Well, after 10:00 curfew until it closed at 10:45 was turned down. According to a member of the newspaper, the Dean of Students objected that Wellesley girls should not be "living a life of whim...
...science, Barzun insists that scientists cannot communicate with each other-the increasing "fantasy" of their symbolic language prohibits communication. But his sharpest nips at contemporary American are in his attack on togetherness. Barzun charges America with "hostility to intellect," of personality "coddling." His particular enemy is the "adjustment curriculum" by which rigorous studies are submerged in a queasy tide of "social" projects and group activity in the hands of "soul probers" who were once teachers...