Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emphasized the seriousness of the drop by noting that it had occurred during the twenty-five years in which the overall College enrollment had steadily increased. But there are other indications, he noted in concluding, that show the humanities still continue to occupy a significant place in the curriculum...
...President Pusey limited his first report of a year ago to touching upon University problems in the light of comparing the present University with that he left in 1929. In his second report this year he singles out Advanced Standing, a special Bachelor of Science degree, and curriculum revisions at the School of Design for special commendation. Excerpts from his report are compiled below...
...humanities hold a central position in liberal education. In a sense, all subjects deserve a place in liberal curriculum only as they partake in at least some degrees of the goal of humane scholarship. But a college in which the studies traditionally called the humanities are weak runs the risk of being less liberal than it should; for our full humanity is best quickened and developed through imaginative grasp of the subtler experiences of individuals as revealed through arts and letters...
...January 1953 but was promptly readmitted in February. His best subjects: Phys. Ed. 123 ("Coaching Basketball") and Phys. Ed. 125 ("Coaching Football"), ¶ A football co-captain who, in spite of cheating on a physiology exam, inched himself up-after five years-to the junior class. His "junior"-year curriculum: Sport Skills (a required freshman course which he had already taken), an advanced Sport Skills (a required sophomore subject), Basic Body Control (another required freshman course), Introduction to Education (which he had taken in his first year), American Government (which he had taken in his second year), History of American...
...Burchard, now M.I.T.'s dean of humanities and social studies: "How did you persuade Winston to speak to those steam fitters of yours?" As Burchard well knew, there was a mite of truth in the joke, in spite of mighty efforts already made to broaden the humanities curriculum. Was the nation's top technical school still giving its students too narrow an education? Last week the M.I.T. faculty formally approved a new experiment that may eventually answer the question...