Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school. The drive was climaxed when the Ford Foundation gave $2,000,000 for expanded teacher training, busines research, and two professorships. The grant put the school on its most solid financial foundation in nearly 25 years and rounded out the Dean's ambitious plans for reorienting the curriculum and school's objective to post-war business conditions. "I think this is a good time for a young and vigorous leader to take over," he said...
...Widener become insufficient for undergraduate needs. To cope with a rising enrollment, the University has crowded more men into the Houses, and the drive for high grades, to obtain draft deferment, has sent more men to the book stacks. These trends combine with a general tightening of the curriculum--one professor says the work required of college students here today is just twice what it was twenty-five years ago--to overtax the libraries...
Since Dean Griswold was appointed in 1946, basic changes have taken place in Harvard's approach to the law. There has been a complete revamping of the curriculum and the addition of many new and diverse seminars. The 50-year-old legal expert went to Oberlin College and received his LL.B. from Harvard Law in 1928 and his S.J.D...
Harvard and Yale also seem to agree that no curriculum or method of instruction can be any better than the men who implement it. "If one thing has been learned from our experiment over 30 years," said Vernon W. Lippard, Dean of the Yale Medical School, "it is that teachers and their attitudes are more important than curriculum structure and methods...
...Dean Lippard has said, "that the student should not be under such pressure to attend required exercises from eight to five daily for four years that he has no time for pursuit of special interests." The Medical School has therefore included fewer than the usual scheduled hours in the curriculum. The student may choose to attend several electives or none, and he receives no credit. The brilliant student may take as many as he is interested in, and the man who learns slowly may spend additional study in the basic courses...