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...lower level courses in ancient philosophy will be offered by that department next year, since Philosophy 1a is being temporarily discontinued. Only Humanities 5--which this year had nearly 600 students--will elucidate the early thinkers to novices...
Roderick Firth, professor of Philosophy and chairman of the Department, expressed his great regrets at having to discontinue Phil 1a, calling it "one of the University's famous courses." He explained the difficulty partly by the fact that the philosophy department uses the members of its permanent staff as tutors, thus giving them less available time, and partly by the yearly changes in staff members. The department "is certainly going to make every effort" to reinstate the course by 1963-4, he said. He suggested that this might be done by sharing the job among a number of faculty members...
Third on the list as usual is Math 1a with 499. The appearance in fourth place of the occasionally given English 151, The 19th Century Novel, with 464 students, is a complete surprise, revealing the demand for a course of this type...
...1a and Nat Sci 5, George Wald's "experiment," are next with 385 and 340. Interestingly enough, Gov. 1a has been in the top ten only since 1960, when the Department transformed it from Constitutional Concepts to Modern Government...
...elective courses for 1959 and their enrollments are Ec 7, 547; Hum 5, 537; Math 1a, 531; English 126a, 430; Soc Sci 1, 401; English 170b, 372; Math...