Word: curricula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what extent are these functions of art instruction given place in our curricula and in our class-room methods? Only too frequently works of art are presented to students as aesthetic fragments torn from, their context in the lives, the ideas, the social habits, the cultural practices which produced them--very much as works of art are presented in a museum. This procedure, often necessary for the investigator-scholar, is a great disadvantage to the general student of art. His ignorance of the circumstances in which a great picture was painted, or a building constructed, not only limits the range...
...Kennedy urged that high-school curricula be broadened so that superior students could learn enough chemistry, physics and biology to enable them to pass rigid medical qualifying examinations without going to college. He would spend the time saved from college on added medical work, suggested a degree of bachelor of medicine after four years in medical school, M.D.s after an additional five years of study and internship...
This is Harvard's approach to the problem, following the ideas of the President's recent annual report. By its admission requirements the college helps the schools form their curricula; by its School of Education the University can send out men well trained and aware of the problems ahead. The University cannot dictate to the schools; it can only influence them indirectly, So the findings of the new committee will be eagerly awaited, and may well affect both what Harvard requires of its candidates for admission and what the University will teach prospective school teachers, superintendents and headmasters...
Length of Curricula Reduced...
...most desirable changes, Dean Hudnut's office announces, is the reduction of the length of the combined curricula of college plus profess- ional school from 71/2 to 61/2 years. The decrease of the time required for the training of an architect is making it possible to test the qualifications of students for professional studies while they are still in college...