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Humanities 2, with 462 students, has replaced Mathematics 1a in the second position. Mathematics 1b, ranking third with 445 enrolled, has 85 fewer students than its first semester equivalent. Social Sciences 1 and English 123, which ranked second and third respectively last spring, are no longer among the top ten courses...
...Math 1a, in second place, is far behind, with 529 members. Humanities 2, with 461 students, climbed from seventh place last year to take over third...
...first basic Model 47 helicopter, has since sold more than 1,000. Airman Bell also led the attack on the sound barrier with the stainless-steel, rocket-engined X-1, which blazed to a 967-m.p.h. speed record in 1948. Five years later Bell's improved X-1A topped 1,650 m.p.h. and a 90,000-ft. altitude (TIME...
...Department recognizes the problem, he says, and is making what he feels is a successful effort to combat it. The first aspect of this effort is to lay emphasis on making strong courses out of Astronomy 1a-1b. With the advent this last fall of Natural Sciences 7--Problems of the Earth and Universe, given by Bok and L. Don Leet, professor of Geology--the Astronomy Department has felt free to make Astronomy 1a and 1b more technical courses. This year's approach emphasized a mathematical background which had been unnecessary in the past...
...their records helps to dispel any fear that they are either unprepared for Harvard studies or, on the other hand, prepared for nothing but Harvard studies. They are all taking respectable freshman subjects, with three of them, in fact, engaged in math studies more advanced than the elementary Math 1a. None of them is taking his first elementary language course or any other subject that should rightly be taught in high school. Yet their present course schedules, despite a leaning toward the sciences, exhibit the usual dilettante variations of the freshman year, and their outside interests are as "normal...