Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four to One. Founding Dean Walter Williams, Bible student and orator, was a Missouri editor who did not go to college. But he insisted from the start that a Mizzou journalism student devote some 75% of his curriculum to the liberal arts and sciences, a requirement still in effect and now the standard for most schools. To give his students practical training, Newsman Williams mortgaged his house, set up the Columbia Missourian, a daily largely written and edited by students under faculty supervision, which competes in Columbia (pop. 45,000) with the Tribune, trails its opposition in paid circulation...
...loudest mouth around. What Hiss found to shout about was the school building program. Says he: "When I got the facts I went wild. Some of the schools were downright unsanitary. The rest rooms were so bad the kids wouldn't even go to the bathroom. And the curriculum was just as bad." In 1953 a friend jokingly challenged him to run for the school board. A self-styled Renaissance man who never went beyond prep school (Choate), Hiss took the dare, to his surprise wound up as the first Republican elected to the school board since Reconstruction days...
...main speakers at the seminar will be President Emeritus James B. Conant, who will address a general assembly on the topic, "Modern Foreign Languages in the High School Curriculum." According to Miss Marjorie H. Nicholson, chairman of the conference's arrangement committee, Conant's speech is of particular importance because of "the pyramiding belief that the teaching of modern languages is as vital to America's future as the teaching of science...
...many concentrators and tutors have since tried to live down--but more important was the esprit de corps of the tutorial staff. It was a small, brilliant group, led by Matthiessen and Perry Miller; there was a feeling that they were doing something unique and important in the Harvard curriculum. There were disagreements, to be sure--some tutorial meetings ended in fistfights--but enough agreement existed on central principles and objectives to make History and Lit a great, cohesive field...
...comparative religion course or courses on many faiths, including Christianity. Neither professor would go so far as to say that a full department status for religion is feasible at this time, and Ziff pointed out that facilities at the College might not allow such an addition to the curriculum...