Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wriston era--now 17 years strong--started in 1937 when the balding former Lawrence College president came to Brown. Behind him in Appleton, Wisconsin he left today's youngest educational leader, Nathan Pusey. Together they had pampered Pusey's sophomore tutorial into the outstanding feature of the Lawrence curriculum. Though Wriston moved to bigger things, leaving Pusey as his eventual successor, the now Brown president never forgot the Lawrence tutorial. A modified program came to Brown and this fall is the controversial part of the curriculum...
Knight is a fellow of Saybrook College, and served as Secretary of the President's Committee on General Education which earlier this year proposed starting curriculum changes for Yale. Born in Cambridge, he attended the Western High School in Washington, D.C. and Exeter Academy. After a short stay at Rollins College he went to Yale, where he graduated with the class...
Another important aspect of the curriculum is the restriction of the amount of courses offered to students. A look at the Princeton catalogue shows that there are only about half the number of courses in corresponding departments at Harvard. The basis for this policy again goes back to Wilson who felt a need for a counterbalance to the free-elective system, originated at Harvard by President Eliot and spread through other universities. As Wilson saw it, Harvard under Eliot had performed the function of liberation, but had left education in disorder. Wilson decided that it was Princeton...
Eliot's most significant contribution was the initiation of the elective system despite heated opposition from faculty members who fought to preserve the status of their particular subject in the Old fixed curriculum. The young president attracted the scholars whose presence gave Harvard its eminence...
Conant's regime saw the educational pendulum swing all the way back to a curriculum more fixed than any since the middle of Eliot's administration. The restricting factor was General Education, Conant's greatest experiment and probably his greatest single success...