Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a course or its equivalent would be an invaluable addition to every college curriculum. In these days of economic and social extremists and political confusion any aid to a more balanced viewpoint is worth a trial. Whether the new study at Columbia will really uproot the cruder and more stupid forms of radicalism as well as the more stubborn tendencies of conservatism among immature students is open to grave doubts. But the principle is right...
...chief values to be gained from a college education, and nowhere as in our universities is it possible so easily to learn these values. If Columbia is really able to inculcate in here students a clearer perspective by her new method of teaching history, and to make curriculum more applicable to a present blending of "red" with "white," by all means let us study and adopt her system...
...Dean of Freshmen at Yale University. The appointment signalizes a new organic relation between Yale College and Sheffield Scientific School. Beginning next autumn the 800 or more entering undergraduates will be simply Freshmen of Yale University. To Dean Angier falls the important constructive task of arranging a Freshman curriculum that shall be as far as possible identical for all graduates for the degrees of A. B., Ph. B., and S. B. They will use the same dormitories and dining halls, and will doubtless come to feel that the horizontal cleavage which unites them as first-year men is more fundamental...
...strikingly like recent tendencies at Harvard. The Freshman Dormitories at Harvard have already brought about a social solidarity among the Freshmen, while the grouping of a limited number of courses as "Open to Freshmen," and the new system of compulsory physical training, have given them something approaching a common curriculum. At both Yale and Harvard there is a strong drift in the direction of what might not improperly be called a 'Freshman College...
...general examination will crown and fortify this group system. As President Lowell says, the plan "has attracted wide attention, and would seem to be a notable advance in American educational methods." Hitherto, under both the elective system and the ancient curriculum, the examinations have been by separate course, the paper being set by the professor in each of them, and the student being held responsible mainly for such knowledge only as had been imparted in the lectures. They were largely tests of memory, and were scattered through the four years of undergraduate life. As a system it was identical with...