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...some academic institutions, talk of raising the number of courses required to graduate would send Faculty into a frenzy to beef up the courses catalog...
Harvard, a place saturated with tradition, prides itself on regular patterns and using what works. The 155-page course catalog from 50 years ago uses the same divisions in types of classes and professor limits that the 787-page course catalog today uses. The mathematics sequence of 1a, 1b, 21a and 21b that appears in the 1966-67 catalog is still followed by today's premeds...
Meanwhile, the departments of Social Relations and Semitic Language and History, present in the 1946-47 catalog, have become the Sociology and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, respectively. The Department of Geology and Geography, which had 34 classes in 1946-47, has been assimilated into a number of departments...
Senior Lecturer in Physics Margaret E. Law, who served as registrar from 1978 to 1989, says she, like the other registrars, have little control over what the catalog contains...
Much more than sandwiched in between was the Harvard classroom education. What courses do you take if you think you might be a presidential candidate after European, African and law school experiences? Which openings in the course catalog were "relevant" to my future? History and literature was the perfect major. Its interdisciplinary approach encouraged exploration of common themes and original scholarship. It was in Donald Fleming's American intellectual history course that I really first understood that factual conclusions have a lot to do with who is determining the facts and reaching the conclusions. My tutors, Barry O'Connell...