Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sponsor this program. Previously, the Fund supported the "22 College Plan" which had all ten of the colleges in the present plan among its members. The earlier scheme provided scholarships to students from the 29 colleges who had been accepted by the School of Education for its normal curriculum...
Dodds had announced the start of a survey on Princeton's curriculum and facilities, saying he had began it in anticipation of a coming "bull market in education." He emphasized that the impending sharp increase in college enrollments constituted a 'major national question...
...Artist Peale had struck the first blow for the artists, heroically stripped to the skin when an overmodest baker, hired as a model, refused to take off his breeches. But even with Peale's influence, a life class was not put in the academy's curriculum until 1812. Nudity also ended the academy's Golden Age, the decade 1876-86, when the school was dominated by Thomas Eakins. He revolutionized art teaching, insisted that students draw from nature, based his training on the study of the human form, emphasized dissection and anatomy. But when Eakins removed...
...There are other indications of more immediate relevance. . . The number of course elections in the humanities is virtually as large as in the social sciences . . . Thus we can say they continue to occupy a significant place in the curriculum although a large part of the task of teachers in these fields seems now to be to contribute to the liberal education of students whose major preoccupation is with one or the other of the natural sciences or social sciences...
...called the decision to permit qualified students to earn a Bachelor of Science degree, after completing the degree in Arts, by taking additional work in the Division of Applied Sciences, "a second noteworthy action." And he lauded the Design School's "increased emphasis in a new curriculum on history, aesthetics, the theory of architecture, composition and freehand drawing...