Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...late Professor Charles Foster Kent of Yale, a good man, organized the Council eight years ago. Its purpose has been "to cooperate ... in giving students, particularly undergraduate students, a scholarly and sympathetic interpretation of religion, chiefly through the channels of the regular curriculum." The chief method of cooperation has been to select and finance "young men and women of high quality of intellect and spirit" through post-graduate university courses, and then commend such Fellows for teaching and administrative positions. Eighty Fellows have taken jobs in more than 30 schools. Forty more are now studying; chiefly at Harvard, Yale, Columbia...
...general topics concerning militarism in education are pertinent here. At another time the CRIMSON will publish an article discussing the ways and means of furthering the study of military subjects in schools and colleges. This article deals mainly with the subject as it may be seen in the Harvard curriculum...
...detracting men from following their natural academic work. Yet in spite of these questionable methods of high pressure salesmanship, and the fact that those courses are not in accordance with the academic standards of Harvard University, Naval and Military Science are allowed to remain as part of the college curriculum. Founded as an extra curricular activity and included in the regular college courses only as a war measure, the inertia of the University administration has allowed these vestiges of former exigencies to remain too long after their usefulness has vanished...
...objection to the present status of Military and Naval Science is that it offers no contribution to the liberal arts education. Its only conceivable place in the University is among the purely extra-curricular activities. The purpose of the college curriculum is to provide men with training in the sciences and humanities that give a balanced back-ground to life...
...final analysis, the question of whether drilling should be included in the curriculum of a liberal arts college is the major issue. Even if it were conceivable that this matter was essential to Naval Science, the summer cruise would afford adequate opportunity for marching. But it is by no means certain that Harvard University should be the site of such unacademic and militaristic activities as drilling, and obviously the teaching of the theatrical arts here does fill a very great need...