Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, under President Eliot, the Corporation and Overseers were influenced by the growing attention paid to graduate training in European universities, and created a "Graduate Department." From successive administrative changes in 1905 and 1912 evolved the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with essentially the same curriculum as it has today...
...intensity of the present GSAS curriculum is expressed in studies as well as in studying. Most of the larger undergraduate departments are broken up into smaller areas for concentrated graduate study. With a predominance of A's required for the Ph.D., the GSAS dean's office recognizes a B as the rough equivalent of an "undergraduate...
...college these men find they are somewhat restricted to the campus. They notice that the upperclass years in the clubs are socially better than freshman and sophomore years. And they see that this social difference has been partially carried over into the curriculum, where they spend two rather directionless years building a broad educational base for upperclass concentration...
...group plans to investigate all phases of undergraduate life, ranging from underclass curriculum, admissions, and the dormitory system, to perennial undergraduate gripes over parietal rules, compulsory chapel, and the car ban. These rules have gotten a "new look" for years, but in its present frame of mind, the University wants assurances that they are sound...
...moment, the faculty is soled on the upperclass curriculum. It consists of beginning concentration in the Junior year. This is different from Harvard, where concentration begins a year earlier. As a junior a candidate for the A.B. degree must write at least one 7-10,000 word paper in his major. This comes in addition to a senior these is which is required from every man in order to graduate. At Princeton the faculty does not distinguish between honors and non-honors candidates...