Word: burchardism
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...Burchard then altered the Tech humanities systems to one prescribed course per year for three years and a choice of a great book, history of thought, music, or international relations course. This curriculum was to take one quarter of a Tech undergraduate's time. Actually it required only one-sixth...
This wasn't much of a does of humanities for an engineer, M.I.T.'s Burchard thought, but he confessed it amounted to more G.E. than an incoming engineering graduate student from an Ivy League College was likely to have...
...place of the old English course. Burchard followed the pattern of Harvard's G.E. courses and inserted the writing of several papers into G.E. course freshmen took. Only if the quality of these papers was startlingly bad would undergraduates have to take a formal composition course as an extra subject. With this system, Burchard was able to squeeze two more terms of humanities content into the Tech undergraduate's curriculum...
Ultimately, Burchard suggested, the training of an engineer might be extended in length like that of a doctor or lawyer and then the humanities requirements for engineers might also be extended...
...Chicago's street corners and in Chicago bars are left to individual enterprise. For the climax, on stage at Medinah Temple, a new Imperial Potentate (sometimes referred to as the "Pote") would be named. This year he was no less a person than Harold Clayton Lloyd, of Burchard, Neb. and Los Angeles, Calif., better known as the comedian hero of such Jazz Age films as The Freshman, Safety Last and Grandma...