Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doing all it could to keep abreast of the times in what might be called the newer sciences. Eugenics is one of them, and the fact that it is not yet anywhere near an exact science is no valid reason for its not being fostered by the Harvard curriculum. In fact the amorphousness in which most theories for race betterment now find themselves should be but a stronger incentive for serious efforts toward research and instruction. It is a challenge to any honest educational institution which wishes to acquaint its students with a knowledge of the world...
...considers a college generation as it extends over the four years of the undergraduate curriculum, a tradition that has extended over 30 years assumes a much more venerable aspect. In this light, the present action of the Phillips Brooks House in discarding a habit that has been indulged in for more than seven generations of college men, is deserving of notice...
Quite recently, realization of this second point has been evidenced among a large number of schools, and a committee has been engaged in drawing up a new preparatory school curriculum. At least one boarding school of large size has, moreover, gone a step further and has introduced, more or less informally, courses designed to give the student some conception of the actual world within which he lives, such as can not be derived from the study of algebra or Latin. Their aim, namely, the general broad view over and the correlation of the various forces which have produced the contemporary...
...consciousness in American literature in a movement disconnected from the Sherwood Anderson-Sinclair Lewis school will be welcomed as a distinct addition. With such academic recognition for the history of native writing as a start, a further progression may commence strengthening the position of American literature in the college curriculum where today it is often neglected...
...recent survey conducted at Columbia shares a unanimous sentiment among national leaders in public life, industry, and education favoring the re-instatement of German in the secondary curriculum. If the elimination of Germanic studies was a foolish manifestation of war-time hysteria, to allow public prejudice and the negligence of school authorities to block its return is but a perfect example of the old story, cutting off one's nose to spite one's face...