Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Quincy and his predecessors kept the University from succumbing to the utilitarian principle--the most practical education at the cheapest price--that had choked many other American institutions, the curriculum remained almost medieval. The function of the Faculty was to hear recitations, not to lecture. Students were forced to follow rigidly restricted curricula, and were made to pick up what they could from the material, virtually without help...
...William Eliot, elected to the presidency in 1869, was the driving force that finally reformed this situation, and with it American education. Only 35 years old when he came to office, he had the support of a Board of Overseers and a Corporation convinced of the need for major curriculum revisions...
...professors disagreed however on the need for acting courses within the curriculum. "It is quite appropriate," said Levin, "that this lab should be an extracurricular activity. Although we do have courses in dramatic literature here, this sort of technical thing can best be done outside the classroom...
...recent statements to the CRIMSON, the students said that if it is the President's intention to change the standards of facilities and entrance requirements he is on the right track. On the other hand, they said, "if he is planning a change in the standards of education and curriculum, we feel he is ill-advised...
...What is neded at the school," they said, "is more of the same thing, simply an extension of the sound program we already have. We have a top-notch faculty and a good curriculum; both simply need to be added...