Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gaunt, genial Doodle Harmon likes to pretend that his chief qualification for his new job is his "unprejudiced ignorance" about education. But in reality, he has already gone far with his plans for the academy's curriculum. On the technical side, cadets will start off with two months of indoctrination in everything from military drill to servicing aircraft. After that will come a three-year aircraft observer's course (355 hours on the ground, 171 in the air), which will qualify cadets as full-fledged navigators and bombardiers. In their last year, the cadets will finally start training...
...Harold Hand, 53, professor of education at the University of Illinois, debonair devotee of the theory that traditional subjects are less important than service to society. As a member of the influential Illinois curriculum program, Professor Hand has spread his gospel throughout his state, has helped arouse dozens of schools and communities to work more closely together. "There are," he says, "community needs that simply have to be met. But anything we ask a youngster to do has got to have a clear relationship to something he wants. So we need to have things that the community needs make sense...
...more Thai officers in the U.S.; enlargement of the 200-man U.S. Military Advisory Group in Thailand. For his part, bulky General Srisdi prepared to double the number of officers and noncoms in training, introduce a one-year officer's training program to supplement the present five-year curriculum, and increase his army to 100,000 strong from its present 65,000 (roughly equal to New Zealand...
...Force, which absorbs 1,200 new regular officers yearly, expects eventually to get half from the academy's planned enrollment of 2,600. As at the older academies, cadets will be nominated mainly by Congressmen. The Air Force has already planned a sinewy four-year curriculum (1,548 hours of humanities, 1,629 of science, 2,176 of airmanship, including drill as well as flight), and intends to build, besides school buildings and barracks, an air field and a stadium for the football team...
...concert of Pierrot Lunaire. It was a tremendous experience ... I turned to a friend and said: "That's the kind of music I have always expected; it's not strange at all." "You Are Insane." Music courses began slipping into Kirchner's scientific curriculum, including a course in composition from Professor Schoenberg himself. Kirchner finally abandoned science and plunged wholly into music. He had great potentialities as a pianist, but chose composition...