Word: curriculum
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...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...
Consolidation, familiar as the term may be, is not the word to describe the current activity at the Graduate School of Business Administration. From its position of splendid isolation across the river, the Business School has been conducting a quiet but thorough revamping of its curriculum and teaching methods to adjust to a rapidly changing business environment...
...conditions, or as President Conant put it in his charge to the group in 1943, to assure "the continuance of the liberal and humane tradition." And though the Committee's findings were in no sense regarded as supreme pronouncements, they did much to set the terms of curriculum debate among college and secondary school educators. In the style of its Soviet counterpart the Faculty Committee suggested a new "line" for thought on education; in a more down-to-earth American tradition it was careful to tie all ideological utterances to concrete problems and practicable recommendations; and in the best ecumenical...
...book" on General Education in a Free Society, is one of the few publications in the history of the Harvard Press to have sold more than 50,000 copies. Outside of Cambridge it is still read. At Harvard it has unobtrusively become the basis for discussion of college curriculum on both the theoretical and working levels. By the weight of its influence the colorless phrase General Education has been established as the slogan under which some of the most pressing issues of college policy are examined...
...flux and on the run, and will continue to be so for some time to come. A shock wave of greater and faster and deeper learning is passing through the whole system. It bit the elementary college courses a few years ago, and is now passing upward through the curriculum. Shortly it will bit the professional schools, and they two will have to revise their practices radically. This is no time to try to live by the book--any book. Our sanctions must lie elsewhere--in the pertinence and relevance and effectiveness of what we are doing. George Wald Professor...