Word: naturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Sciences and Mathematics programs have also undergone revisions, with a particularly strong emphasis on biology and natural history courses and a new advanced math courses giving a solid introduction to calculus. There has been a particularly large demand recently for the Physics and Chemistry courses which are electives in...
The possible contrasts are many. Representing the best in American secondary education, the independent preparatory school sacrifices the natural social atmosphere of the high school to achieve a high degree of academic discipline and rigor. The Exeter "round table" system, with a faculty member holding discussions with ten or twelve...
Herschell probably won't get to Harvard, but if he does, he won't be prepared for college work. It will take a composition course like Gen Ed Ahf to teach him how to express himself, and three full-year educational gargantuas--in the humanities and the social and natural...
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the first three academic years were devoted to studying Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. In addition, freshmen studied arithmetic; sophomores, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry; juniors, natural science; and seniors, ethics and philosophy. Oratory and some history were taught all classes, and the textbooks were written...
The Natural Sciences excluded themselves from this system early, but it covered almost all the fields in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Basically, it would require graded tutorial in the sophomore year, emphasize more indidvidual work and independent study, and establish more frequent departmental examinations.