Word: programing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...program, a result of widespread objections to President Eliot's system of free electives, was designed to eliminate the opportunities for poor planning and overspecialization that characterized Eliot's regime. The new system, instituted by President Lowell, intended to turn out broad-minded graduates as well as scholars and proposed to make a place for the man aiming towards a general education. It hoped to achieve this goal through a prescription of form, a planning of student programs within certain set limits...
...with the student. It requires that he choose his courses wisely and be carefully tutored in the ultimate objectives of concentration and distribution. The undergraduate who is carefully advised and sets up a precise balance between general and specialized courses can often realize the full value of the current program. For the man that receives little help in planning his curriculum and loses sight of the ideals of the system, concentration and distribution may fail in its purpose...
...current General Education experiment deals in the same values envisaged by the concentration and distribution program. It places a number of courses introducing the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences at the service of the College. These wide surveys are an attempt to coordinate the type of course offered for distribution with the ideals of the system. At present General Education lies buried under the mass of specialist courses. As a theory it hopes to present a constructive solution to the problem that has haunted American education for half a century...
Costing an average of $600 for each student, the 1948 summer program offers the chance to live in French, German-, Spanish-, or English-speaking countries. Students will work in camps for under-privileged children, help farmers with harvests, reconstruct hospitals, and make bicycle trips...
...hundred and fourteen American students voyaged to Europe on two State Department-authorized ships last summer. "Learning through working" was the keynote of the program...