Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this gift is of especial importance for Harvard. The educational program which it will finance was approved this past May after several years of careful study by committees of the Faculty. The groups were looking for a new curriculum that would provoke increased undergraduate interest. Though this change is, of course, not felt directly in the Summer School, it is representative of a growing desire in many American universities to alter their curricula in a similar manner...
...within the next ten months, and more gifts like the Procter and Gamble donation are sorely needed. But there is an optimism in the College that the forces of good will open their money-boxes. Meanwhile, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences looks to the years under the new curriculum as the most challenging that it and its students have ever experienced. Students, too, their mumblings at last realized, expect their education to be more engaging than ever. Let the recession, the summits, the drafts be damned: things look good for Harvard--and American higher education
...more complete discussion of the implications of Procter and Gamble's gift to the changing Harvard curriculum, and its role in the Program for Harvard College's drive for $82.5 million follows in a feature on page...
...added later, are gaining ground. Recordings and taped playbacks of students' own speech are proving valuable. Most encouraging statistic of the report: since 1952 an increasing number of school systems have adopted plans similar to the third-grade-through-high-school proposal of Conference Member Mary P. Thompson, curriculum consultant for Connecticut's Fairfield schools. By 1955, says the report. 270,000 children were learning foreign languages in U.S. elementary schools and that was as many as were arduously decoding Babel in all the nation's colleges and universities...
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...