Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan advanced in the school paper to introduce a combination of the concentration and tutorial systems into the Choate School curriculum, while commendable because of the interest shown in individual scholarship, is a rather far step from the purpose of the secondary school. According to the outline proposed, the Choate News advocates a modification to some degree of the Harvard tutorial system, placing at the disposal of the high-ranking student the advantage of preparing special work aside from classroom courses under supervision of the masters. The project is similar to the Harvard system in that it allows sufficient opportunity...
...under the increasing pressure for specialization. In laying a firm foundation for later years of university training is found the most imminent and pressing problem with which the preparatory school is faced. The most practical objection to the Choate plan is the doubtful efficacy of specialization in the secondary curriculum...
Moreover, the proposed supervision opens a limited scope of social service to those of the dental and medical schools who are interested in that sort of work. In a curriculum as full as that of the two schools, there is little chance for the student to devote himself to extra-curricular activities. But by providing settlement work which embodies the features of actual medical and dental experience, Phillips Brooks House affords an outlet both practical and interesting, at same time fulfilling its first concern of aiding, the settlement children...
...brought to the attention of Harvard University by Maurice Wertheim '06 representing this committee in a visit yesterday to University Hall. He conveyed to the University the desire of the committee to work in close harmony with the administration, even though the proposed activity is to be extra-curriculum. The University in turn assured him of its cooperation, and a basis of admission requirements satisfactory to the University is being worked out. Plans for definite work beginning in February are being prepared by the New York committee and will be announced in the course of the next few weeks...
...curriculum was set up with two courses, a stiff educational one to prepare "career girls" for the Bryn Mawr examinations, a less strenuous one in letters and the arts for misses planning to take their places in Society. But each & every girl must pass an examination to get into the school. And each & every one is taught that character, competence, self-reliance come before Career or Society...