Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foundations also opened their pocketbooks. Ford and Rockefeller gave almost $ 11 million to finance curriculum improvements, schools of public administration, medicine, and an International Rice Research Institute, which is studying 8,000 varieties of rice. Last week, on a fund-raising trip to the U.S., Romulo clinched a $5,000,000 loan from the World Bank for his agricultural college...
Learning by Era. Modernizing a plan of study introduced by Emma Willard in the 19th century, the curriculum integrates its studies of art, religion, music and literature into single historical eras. A freshman studies ancient history. A sophomore learning about the Renaissance studies the medieval church, listens to Gregorian chants, designs an illuminated manuscript in her art class. The junior year concentrates on the industrial revolution, and the senior year on modern times...
...been suggested that Harvard's Commencement, the ancestor of all American academic ceremonies and quite distinct from those of Europe, is the United States' chief contribution to higher education. If an undergraduate cannot find distinction in the Harvard curriculum, he can be sure it will appear in the ceremony of the parting...
Lowell's administration worked to strengthen the academic curriculum. A concentration and distribution program was devised requiring students to take six full courses in one field of study. General examinations were given in the field of concentration. Beginning with the Class of 1914, tutorial instruction was offered in several departments...
Bates begins as a lowly clerk in an upper-U firm of London property agents. En route to a partnership and a Westminster Abbey wedding with the boss's daughter (Millicent Martin), he hires an aging, aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) to guide him through a whirlwind curriculum of fashionable prejudices. "Say 'bloody' a lot," counsels Elliott. "Know a few dirty jokes about the Caesars." When tutor and pupil take aim at the Establishment in a series of daft vignettes-playing squash, touring Cambridge, or off on a jolly shoot-Nothing but the Best looks and sounds like...