Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only Faculty in the field is a board of tutors, there should be something done to ameliorate the poor laboratory and library facilities which exist at present, and eventually to give the field a home of its own. Sooner or later there should be a wider variety of basic courses offered especially for men in this field, such as physical chemistry, bio-physics and perhaps the present Chemistry 44. This should lead to the creation of Professors in this field for its has heretofore been considered a subfield buried among the sciences...
...field of Engineering Sciences at Harvard does not attempt to compete with the ordinary four year technical school in giving the student a highly specialized vocational training. Rather it offers the student preparation in mathematics and the basic sciences of engineering, while giving him ample time to elect courses in other fields. The field had 107 concentrators last year...
...basic courses in theory Economics 1 is much better than the half year course 2a, but it is open only to honors candidates. Professor Chamberlin lectures excellently in course 1, but there is still need for a half course such as 2a. Nearly all the advanced courses will be found worth while, but they cannot all be taken and must be chosen with the interests and the special field of the concentrator in mind. Course 21a was blamed for wasting the effort of Professor Frickey, for students claimed the material could be covered in less than a mouth...
Three factors make the English Department an enigma for this year. First, the loss of Professor Greenough and of Professor Lake cannot help but be felt. Only Professor Lowes now remains of Harvard's legendary English teachers. Second, the basic changes in the tutorial staff means that a large number of students in the field will have to find new tutors, and the Sophomores will, in general, get newly appointed tutors who have yet to learn the ropes. Finally, the omitting of such a basic course in the field as 52, Victorian Literature, is difficult to condone, especially since criticism...
...Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud begins with Freud's amiable observations on the common phenomenon of forgetting. Aside from its jawbreaking title (The Psychopathology of Everyday Life) this is homely and domestic stuff, telling about people who forget their keys, lock themselves out of rooms which-unconsciously -they do not want to enter, forget the names of people they pretend to like, and forget engagements they do not want to keep. In this universal comedy of psychological errors, typesetters drop words from headlines, proofreaders overlook absurd mistakes, genteel ladies make slips of the tongue which transform innocent sentences into...