Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Harold W. Dodds of Princeton has publicly come out against the curriculum and lack of integration of the R.O.T.C. programs, deploring the limited scope covered by their courses...
Dodds advocates the addition of several general courses to the curriculum, which would salvage much of the lost time and present the cadets with a more practical education...
...only is a more uniform deferment policy needed, but also a more realistic definition of what a graduate student is. Many Selective Service boards say they will defer full time students who are doing well, but not part-time students who do not fulfill their definition of a "legitimate" curriculum. These boards do not realize that the average graduate science student beyond the first year cannot afford to study full time; to pay his way, he usually devotes half his time to teaching or research. If draft boards insisted that these men do nothing but study, few could...
...will obliterate what has been the finest native educational system in Africa. South African missionaries, who run over ninety percent of the native schools will probably continue teaching, but the curriculum, now dictated by Daniel Malan's Native Affairs Ministry, must change from education to propaganda for acceptance of segregation policies. To prevent any inter-racial mingling, the government will stop teaching any of the European tongues used in South Africa. This will no doubt widen the color gap, but it will leave teachers struggling to make the few texts written in Bantu fulfill their needs. And in this language...
...good part of America laxity in this area is the fault of administrators who do not accord it as important a position in the curriculum as it deserves. A good part too is the fault of teachers who make language training an unpleasant chore or merely a set of grammatical constructs. Some strides are being made in speaking the language from the start--the easiest, fastest, most thorough and most enjoyable way to learn; as the language becomes meaningful and can overcome a student's natural laziness or disinterest. It is still not enough to provide a much-needed tool...