Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eliot says secondly, "no school or college should have a completely prescribed curriculum." Why not? West Point does not aim to produce a learned scholar but an educated officer, a man who, though he does not "know it all," is capable of finding out what he needs to know when he needs it. Certain courses of study have been found best suited and peculiarly adapted to the needs of an army officer; these are given the cadet. The rest of his time is devoted to learning the duties of his profession, horsemanship, marksmanship, drills of the different branches...
...members to consume mush and milk, and discuss the problems of the day. The Harvard Union formed in 1831 was a debating club not essentially different from the clubs which exist in practically all schools and colleges of today. The position of debating as an adjunct to the college curriculum was thus early recognized, but debating as a contest is of much more recent growth. Intercollegiate debating in America probably owes its beginning to the fact that after several years' negotiations a debating society at Yale challenged Harvard to two debates, one to be held in Cambridge...
...Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University, whose criticism inspired the Britten move, asserts that "no school should have a completely prescribed curriculum, or have its teaching done almost exclusively by recent graduates of the same school. West Point breeds in and in, a very bad practice for any educational institution...
...discussion, which will be confidential, will begin with the examinations for admission and will then cover: the entrance into College; the Freshman Halls; the physical examinations and compulsory physical exercise for Freshmen; the system of advisers; the social life of the students and their relation to College Officers; the curriculum, its requirements and opportunities; the methods of guidance; and finally, the new general examination for graduation...