Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this curriculum and these institutions, out of the liberal arts college which Dunster left, grew the modern Harvard...
...John Leverett became President. He made no important changes in the curriculum, which continued strong in logic, rhetoric, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, ethics, and metaphysics, and remained weak in mathematics and science...
...Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy was endowed in 1727, and under President Holyoke the curriculum was modernized and new texts introduced. Holyoke's most essential reform, however, was doing away with the old system of each tutor taking a class through all subjects in the curriculum. Instead, he made each tutor a specialist in charge of instruction in a given area...
...curriculum, however, President Quincy's influence was not good. The recitation system, which had gradually broken down, was hardened by the adoption of a horrible "Scale of Merit." Quincy required a daily mark on recitations for his rank list, thus reducing the faculty from a teaching body to one which merely saw that the boys got their lessons...
...find an answer it is necessary to go to the section on student discipline, where it is urged that student governments should consider any problems that concern students, including those of curriculum. While the Junior Prom-cheering at games type of Council subject may be more common, the report obviously favors reaching into subjects like educational policy, for at still another place it urges "Students should be offered opportunity to participate in the total work of the educational institution...