Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force ROTC cadets will be able to take advantage of a greatly lightened ROTC curriculum now required, Lt. Col. Richard C. Brock, the new professor of Air Science, announced recently...
James is the Dean of the Anatomical School of Literature--the Neo-Sophistry which views poetry and prose as a connected skeleton. The curriculum is not particularly concerned with what the skeleton has to say, what it thinks about, or, indeed, if it's starving to death. It's bone-structure, marrow, and stomach-muscle, the physiology of literature...
...BLARE of bands and crackling orders shattered the pineland quiet near Colorado Springs. The giant $133 million motel-like complex of aluminum and glass was ready at last. Into the U.S. Air Force Academy marched 1,148 cadets to face a tough, four-year program with the broadest curriculum yet devised for future U.S. military leaders. For news of their first days, their curious customs, and lingo as well, see EDUCATION, Home of the Doolies...
...tiny faculty-last year it numbered seven-took on a challenging task from Mildred Mudd, who died last month (see MILESTONES), and her fellow trustees: to create a topflight college of science and engineering, and to build its curriculum up from basic science, not from other colleges' texts and courses. A further provision: 35% of each student's study was to be in the humanities, a proportion larger than is required at such schools as M.I.T. and Caltech. "We need creative, responsible scientists and engineers," explains young (43), pipe-smoking President Joseph B. Platt, head of the physics...
...Recruiting is not difficult for President Platt; in addition to the fine climate and mountain-valley site, the college pays excellent salaries and offers new faculty members the chance to spend part of their first year doing nothing but planning courses. Large areas of the new college's curriculum are still not mapped in detail, and professors meet to dovetail their separate requirements at beer-and-sandwich klatches...