Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school of thought which "denies to man the ability to work out his own destiny" is, according to Coffee, gradually taking over the Divinity School. This process, he says, is indicated by the dropping of Church History 4 from the school's curriculum, and by the addition to the faculty of "brilliant minds who devote their brilliance to the resuscitation of the 13th century, and to the attacking of Positivism and everything it stands...
Many Divinity students, according to Coffee, fear that the elimination of Church History 4, "once the very center of academic life," from the curriculum, will leave the Divinity student unprepared for his general examinations...
Simmons reorganized the school after his appointment as Dean in 1946. Under his leadership the faculty and student body nearly tripled in size and the curriculum doubled. At his death he had a number of fund raising plans under consideration. Snyder said he was not in a position to comment on their continuation...
...century than any other person. That was high praise, since among White's contemporaries were Charles W. Eliot who began his reform of Harvard in 1869, Daniel G. Gilman, who helped to found Johns Hopkins in 1875, and John W. Burgess, who began to introduce radical changes in the curriculum at Columbia a few years later...
...question can be raised as to whether Cornell has not succeeded almost too well in diversifying its curriculum and opening opportunity for undergraduate study in just about every field, from agriculture to hotel administration. In recent years, the trend has been, if anything, away from this idea--American educators have tended to re-emphasize the importance of an education which will attempt to produce graduates of broader interests and accomplishments than they can obtain in their own academic specialties...