Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Higher education today is too often characterized by a trade-school approach to knowledge. More and more students now rush through a prescribed curriculum as quickly as possible, treading a narrow tight-rope to a job or a professional school. In this era where mere factual knowledge frequently serves as an index of intelligence, the University has symbolized the broad intellectual maturation that learning should...
...concern over the credits started over five years ago, when enrollment in the units zoomed up with imposing draft rulings. With Harvard a 16 course college, the ROTC curriculum equalled 25% of their educational program for many students. At all other universities, where at leas t20 courses are needed for graduation, the ROTC comprises a much smaller percentage of the curriculum...
...present time Yale College is also studying a proposed curriculum change which would include among other things, advanced standing for those qualified...
...that they could walk right into the company. That is the way it worked out. The School of American Ballet soon became the best and busiest in the U.S., and from its classes came a stream of top American dancers.* School Director Balanchine drew up and supervised the curriculum, from the first positions of the eight-year-olds clutching the barre, to master classes for his never-finished products. "Mr. B.," says one graduate, "never makes anything easy. You think it will be simple when he starts a class, but he speeds everything up so much that before...
Although differing with the curriculum of the program, Dodds emphasizes that, contrary to the educators who feel that military discipline does not mix with civilian customs, R.O.T.C. should be retained. The influence of the military in college life says Dodds, is negligible...