Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start. In 1849 some 630 citizens raised $12,000 to put up a medical school which gradually earned a national reputation. One of its founders, Dr. Frank Hamilton, was summoned as a consultant after President James A. Garfield was shot. Professor James P. White introduced clinical midwifery into the curriculum for the first time in the U.S., and Dr. John C. Dalton Jr. was the first physiologist in the country to experiment on living animals as a part of his teaching. Under Chancellor Millard Fillmore (he kept the title even while President of the U.S.), the new school flourished...
...program, as designed by a sub-committee of the Committee on Educational Policy, would bring about sweeping changes in the present ROTC curriculum. The new plan includes provisions to condense the present four-year plan of study to three years, to enlarge the six-week summer camp to 12 weeks, and to liberalize the present ROTC curriculum. Under the new program students would be admitted to ROTC as sophomores, instead of as freshmen, as under the present...
...institutions, theology has tended to move toward the abstract and to be content with general postulates." Dr. Hartshorne applauded the introduction of such subjects as sociology and church administration into seminary classrooms, but "as things are now, these are . . . unrelated systems, each going its own way . . . We have no curriculum, but only subjects of study...
...Features. On the whole, college administrators welcome R.O.T.C., but many college teachers look down on its service-taught courses. The standardized curriculum makes big demands on memory, but does not encourage independent thought, is often hampered by inexperienced military teachers. Giving up at least one academic course a year for R.O.T.C., the student must listen to many dust-dry lectures on minor military subjects (e.g., field sanitation, personnel accounting) better suited to in-service training. Even the broader courses (the role of air power, political geography) arouse little enthusiasm; the men teaching them are assigned service personnel, not trained historians...
...Army has put nearly half its R.O.T.C. units under a new curriculum to produce basically trained officers instead of specialists, giving cadets a chance to pick their specialties after graduation...