Word: auditions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleven o'clock: Culture seekers will find Fine Arts 11, ancient and medieval art, a tough but rewarding course, interesting to audit. Opdyke goes fast, shows you all the monuments you will want to see in Europe next summer (Fogg Large Room). History 168a, Oceanic History, is all about seafaring. Albion is colorful (Harvard 1). Reischaner gives the first past of Soc, Sci, 111, "History of Far Eastern Civilization." Expert and up-to-date information on a crucial area of the world...
...reads the catalogue. Until their heads are buzzing with courses and hours and meeting places and half remembered advice that someone else's roommate gave them two years before. The result is a week of vacillating and browsing-known as "shopping around,"-for a fourth course, or one to audit, or just something to fill in the time between book lines. Here are some suggestions...
...Forms of the Modern Novel." It could be a very good bet (Emerson D). Nock's History of Religions 101 is highly entertaining. Good to listen in on occasionally (Harvard 5). Kenneth Conant's Fine Arts 179, "American Architecture." is non-technical, not difficult, and excellent to audit. Slides and aucedotes (Fogg Large Room...
...latest (September) Audit Bureau of Circulation figures, the morning Los Angeles Times (412,319) was bigger...
S.R.L. thought that booksellers were as much to blame as the papers. Some, it charged, reported slow-selling books as "bestsellers" to step up sales. Others were influenced by "literary snobbishness." S.R.L. suggested an Audit Bureau of Bestsellers, to function something like the press's Audit Bureau of Circulation. It was time "that the book trade cooperated in a certified, scientific, irrefutable system...