Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bacon '18, formerly Assistant Dean of the University and now Dean of St. John's College in Maryland, have resulted in completely changing the curriculum at that college, according to a recent report from there. Where formerly incoming Freshmen found their curriculum mapped out for them, under the new plan they are restricted only to taking three courses in divisions other than their field of main interest. Furthermore, all general college curriculum requirements have been abolished except that of a course in English composition. New emphasis is now being placed upon the requirements of the department in which the student...
Obviously, the plan offers a broad range for attending classes in which the student is interested only in the lecture for the day but would not care to register for the entire course. In this way he obtains from various courses the bits of knowledge which he desires in order to complete or fill in his general course...
...student can learn a great deal by sitting two or three times a week at the feet of a master of literature and science, without doing outside reading or other work," is the opinion of Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia who is strongly in favor of the plan. A Columbia student will be permitted to take one or possibly two such courses and it is thought that they will serve an excellent purpose...
...Williams '85 president of the Associated Harvard Clubs wrote a letter to the board of the humorous publication, published for the first time in the supplement of the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, in which he pointed out that the derisive exploitation of Lampy's attack on the House Plan resulted in "far-reaching injury to the University through the destruction of much good will built up by the patient efforts of Harvard Clubs and alumni, East and West...
...Lampoon, Hollister will say: "A recent issue of the Lampoon contained a very discourteous and, in fact, offensive article, burlesquing the splendid gift of a large sum of money from a Yale graduate to Harvard College, to be used in financing and making possible the College House plan. While your committee does not approve of having the college undergraduate publications censored by the college authorities, at the same time we feel that such publications should be more largely influenced by public opinion, not only as held and exerted by the Harvard undergraduates, but also by the graduates of the University...