Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the direction of Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Chairman of the Committee on General Education, the subcommittee will take as its starting point the recent report authored by John Nicholas Brown '22 on curriculum and departmental charges...
...Brown report, produced last spring by a special Committee on the Visual Arts at Harvard, recommended the construction of a Design Center, the merger of the faculties of Fine Arts and Design, the construction of a Harvard Theatre, and certain changes in the Fine Arts curriculum for undergraduates...
...moppets whose searching, touching, and often embarrassing queries fill the pages of The Questioning Child and Religion (Beacon Press; $3), by Edith F. Hunter. Author Hunter, who has three questioning children of her own, is a graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary. Currently, she is a curriculum editor for the educational division of the Council of Liberal Churches-the council that governs the two-year-old federation of the Unitarians and Universalists. Author Hunter thus speaks especially to religious "liberals" who are inclined to regard Jesus as great rather than divine, and to equate God with the force...
Lowell, with the financial aid of Edward Harkness, supervised the construction of the undergraduate Houses and much of the physical plant of the College. He also designed much of the present undergraduate curriculum--the system of concentration, general examinations, the tutorial system, and the universal participation in athletics...
Halting the Loss. Superintendent Hickey freely acknowledges that the program is still experimental and subject to substantial revision. St. Louis has not yet determined what to do with its gifted sixth-graders when they reach high school. Even the curriculum is likely to be revised as the program's administrators gain more experience. But to Hickey and the others working with him, the important fact is that a start has been made toward halting the loss of brainpower which St. Louis, in common with other, cities, has suffered through failure to detect top talent...