Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urban ministry. It has on its staff such experts as the Rev. George W. Webber, who has led a program of community and spiritual renewal in East Harlem. As a condition for accepting the seminary's presidency, Bonnell has been given a free hand in overhauling the curriculum, which will soon offer new masters' degrees in pastoral counseling and urban ministry, complete with on-the-job training in slum parishes...
...reflects the coming to maturity of a postwar baby crop, but much of it is due to one of Nikita Khrushchev's colossal mistakes. In 1958 he decreed that high school students must work two days a week in factories, which meant adding an eleventh year to the curriculum. Factory managers complained that the students were a liability not an asset. So two years ago, Russia scrapped the system and went back to the old ten-year plan-with the result that this spring not one but two grades reached graduation...
...Rather than one curriculum there should be several responsive to the different interests and backgrounds of students. We are educating men for a variety of careers, and our educational process must recognize this fact while protecting against the creation of trade schools turning out specialist technicians...
...would be a progressive step if medical schools became more strongly identified with the University environment, for not only would this profit the student, but it might also allow a more objective look at the problems of medical care in this nation.Dr. ROBERT H. EBERT: 'Rather than one curriculum there should be several responsive to the different interests and backgrounds of students. We are educating mn for a variety of careers, and our educational process must recognize this fact while protecting against the creation of trade schools turning out specialist technicians...
...Library's effects, either for good or ill, on both the Harvard square area and the University's curriculum will be enormous. The Library and Institute may constitute the most valuable development at Harvard is this century, or they may seem ten years from now to have been the greatest mistake the University over made...