Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curriculum...
...background or temperament, any man who succeeded Robert Hutchins as head of the University of Chicago was bound to run into special problems. Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton has been no exception. In just under six years he has gone far in returning the college to a normal four-year curriculum, favored the revival of football, thrown himself into such necessary activities as clearing the slums around the campus. As a result, many facultymen, whether they agreed with Hutchins or not, have missed the high excitement of his regime, and for one reason or another, some of Chicago's top scholars...
...visual arts are to assume their rightful place in the undergraduate curriculum, the department might well heed President Pusey's words: "The time has come for a new sense of direction and renewed purpose if the study of art at Harvard is to flourish in the coming year...
...course reduction program is the only part of the Advanced Standing system which is unique to the College's curriculum. While early admission and advanced placement criteria are determined in conjunction with the high schools or the College Entrance Examination Board, only juniors and seniors are eligible for course reduction...
...very name course reduction assumes somewhat of a negative aspect. It is the college's way of groping toward the hazy ideal of independent study. Its presence in the curriculum, however, might conceivably act as a crutch in defending the present general system against new curricular suggestions. If exceptions to the present rules can be made, it might be argued that maybe there is no need to reconsider the rules themselves. As it stands now, then, the Program of Advanced Standing is a necessary and valuable adjunct to the present course system, but it is no prelude to any basic...