Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, in the middle 1860's, such an educational philosophy seemed to challenge much of the basis of American higher education, with its emphasis on purely classical training. White and Cornell immensely broadened the college curriculum. In addition to teaching "agriculture and the mechanic arts", they placed the natural sciences on a level with the humanities. They also helped to make modern languages and literature, and above all, history and political science standard parts of college training. The first chair of American history in the United States was established at Cornell...
...than ten percent majors in agriculture, while half the students concentrate in the Liberal Arts and Science and the rest specialize in such fields as Engineering, Business Administration, Home Economics, Physical Education, and the newly created School of Nursing. Indeed, so far is agriculture from dominating the University's curriculum that it is the only department whose operating budget for next year represents a decrease from this year's appropriation...
...Massachusetts resembles other state universities in the scope of its curriculum, it differs from most publicly-financed colleges in having its great period of expansion still ahead of it. The University stands now, in the words of Publicity Director Robert McCartney, "about where Michigan State stood...
...campus after campus, Redding found that hatred of America is an unwritten part of the curriculum. Hecklers bombarded him: "America carries on germ warfare . . . America's gifts are false gifts . . . Americans Go Home." As evidence of American "sex madness," students in Bombay produced fake pictures of coeds being stripped by American college boys -a farfetched reference to the spring fever "panty raids" of 1952. In Poona the students had been shown newsreel films of U.S. infantrymen threatening a parade of workers, but, as Redding quickly pointed out, it was 20 years out of date. The workers were the bonus...
...Vermont's schools that "the teaching of religion in public schools as part of the regular schedule of instruction" was unlawful and must be stopped. Last week Vermont's board of education issued a stern warning to all school superintendents to keep God out of the curriculum. Communities that disobeyed, the board hinted, might lose their annual grants of state...