Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale seniors gather in a small, comfortable room for several hours of discussion and intellectual exchange. Built around these meetings and the informal dinners which precede them on alternate weeks, the Scholars of the House Program has for the last seven years been a unique factor in the Yale curriculum...
Yale University, which has struggled through the first two hundred years of its existence by copying various educational policies of a founder college to the North, now faces a curriculum change so complete and startling, that it will probably take two years of discussion, bickering, and revision before any final action is completed...
Starting in the summer of 1952, and working steadily and secretly behind what the Yale Daily News termed "a ridiculous cloak and dagger security curtain," Yale's president, A. Whitney Griswold and a seven-man committee have completed a sixty-page report which attacks both the curriculum and the undergraduate, and then proposes a new program of General Education to correct Yale's weaknesses...
...more divorced from the basic disciplines of science and learning. Intellectual training, once the unquestioned focus of every educational effort, has been pushed out to the periphery of the public school program. Into the vacuum have rushed the 'experts' from state departments and colleges of education: the curriculum doctors, the integrators, the life-adjusters-the specialists in know-how rather than knowledge...
Answering the AMA's criticism that schools were sacrificing study time and student's elective choice by rigidity of curriculum which included too much material and too many exams. Barry, said, "That's a problem that confronts every school and I think we are pretty free of it here...