Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class is the most refreshing thing that has happened to the high school curriculum in years. The kids are obviously enchanted with their teacher and absorbed in their subject. And despite the fact that the class is almost evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats (Adele Levine is a resolute Democrat), there is a remarkably high level of tolerance for the other's views. In the two classes I attended today, the students discussed the French crisis, Billy Graham, TIME'S movie reviews, nuclear testing (violent disagreement), Dick Nixon, and Bill Knowland (violent disagreement here, too) . . . Twenty-five TIME...
...electric lights, telephones, and outboard motor dinghies to ferry sadhus and supplies across the river. Fifty holy men from all over the country are spending a month there studying political philosophy, social service and hygiene, as well as the principles of Hinduism. Yoga exercises are also on the curriculum-not as a means to spiritual perfection but to tone up sagging sadhu physiques (students are reminded that Prime Minister Nehru stands on his head half an hour each morning to get plenty of blood into his brain...
Included in the proposals for the upperclass curriculum which the faculty approved yesterday was a very pleasant and vague endorsement of the course reduction program. Nevertheless, the final effect of the changes, which on the whole should stimulate independent study, could paradoxically and harmfully limit the opportunities for course reduction...
...total of 2,887 students completed registration last year, including 872 from Harvard and Radcliffe. Of these, about 100 did not complete the summer course, and many more dropped part of their curriculum in mid-summer. A slight increase in the number of students admitted to the School is expected this year...
...Summer School plans to introduce a new field, Middle Eastern Studies, into its curriculum. Ten courses will be given in this field, including seven language courses, two government courses, and an anthropology course...