Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first two years, Wolfe divided his time between George Pierce Baker's "47 Workshop," and classwork for a master's degree. He took Shakespeare from Kittredge, Romantic Poetry from Lowes, and completed the required curriculum with nearly all A's. Generally he tried to read the complete works of every author mentioned in his classes, and his term papers ran to fantastic lengths, sometimes 80 or 90 typewritten pages...
...institution of geography courses into the Harvard curriculum is indeed a welcome change. Professor Darby's arrival is a step toward regaining the fine geographical program Harvard once possessed...
...changes, Wilcox said, reflect "the desire of the Committee on Educational Policy to encourage the use of course reduction within the new curriculum." He noted that they did not imply any change in the various departments' standards for approving course reduction applications...
Implementation of the "new curriculum," which the Committee on Educational Policy and the Faculty approved last spring, is now well under way. Most departments in the social sciences and humanities have initiated honors junior tutorial for credit. Almost half the concentrators in the non-science areas are thus taking junior tutorial as a full course...
...Harvard Ph.D. is to remain a meaningful achievement, the GSAS must, admittedly, dispense with those students who simply enjoy Cambridge life, but have no real interest in a scholastic carrer. On the other hand, an arbitrary Ph.D. curriculum, such as Elder proposes, would also eliminate those students who, for various reasons, could not complete their thesis in time...