Word: curriculum
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Freud and Jung will soon be joining St. Augustine and Luther as prominent figures in the curriculum of the Harvard Divinity School. Under the terms of a grant announced yesterday, the National Institute of Mental Health is awarding $425,893 to Harvard, Loyola University of Chicago, and Yeshiva University of New York to develop a mental health curriculum for theological students...
Warren and the faculty that he began to assemble took three years to decide on a curriculum. They culled the teaching techniques of their own old schools and others, paying special attention to those schools that were getting to be known as innovators. Outstanding among them: Cleveland's Western Reserve University. Warren & Co. followed Western Reserve's lead in switching away from what is called the "block system," prevalent in conventional medical schools. Under this system, the student starts with anatomy and keeps on studying it through his first year without regard to its specific meaning in terms...
...gave a dismal answer. Today's pupils, says E.T.S., "just don't like the stuff; they are afraid of it; they don't see any point to it ... Several other studies suggest that mathematics has the dubious honor of being the least popular subject in the curriculum...
...Abilene to West Point). Went home to Kansas with his parents in 1915, when his father bought the daily Manhattan Mercury. Worked his way at Kansas State College in Manhattan, where he compiled a respectable scholastic average, but failed to graduate because he rebelled against the science-heavy required curriculum. Undisputed highlight of his college career: a scene in a student production of Chip the Miner's Daughter, where, as the hero, he shouted: "What ho! The villain steals the gold!" then was slugged by the villain with a bag filled with nuts, bolts and nails. Surgeons...
Canant made the new program official in 1940 and established an administration committee to put it into effect. Once a curriculum and plan of study was draw up--one sheet of paper with four typewritten lines on it--the new school had to gain recognition by the American Dental Association and the Association of American Dental Schools. Arthur M. Maloney D.M.D. '23, associate professor of Clinical Dentistry, went to New York to present the School's application...