Word: comps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded hour with popular classes. The two hundred and twenty-five elect who made it into Comp Lit 166 will file into Longfellow Alumnae with a sizeable vanguard of embittered auditors to hear Professor Guerard launch his whirlwind tour of modern novels from Bovary to Absolom. Fieser, Krall, et al, will start their annual purge of Harvard's pre-med ranks in Mallinc-krodt MB9. Expressly designed to separate the men from the boys, Chem 20 will again swell the number of English concentrators...
Four courses not among last year's leaders have joined the top ten. Soc Sci 1, Comp Lit 166, English 123, and History 169 replaced Fine Arts 13, Music 1, Soc Sci 4, and Nat Sci 3. Fine Arts 13 took the largest drop, falling from fourth to twenty-first place...
Rankings of the top ten courses are Ec 1, 635; Hum 2 and Math 1a, 526 each; Hum 5, 483 Soc Sci 1, 459; Comp Lit 166, 430; English 123, 364; Chem 1, 356; History 169, 345; and Government...
...scheduling dilemma is easily resolved. While twelve may be a pleasant hour for the lecturers involved, one or more of them could shift to eleven o'clock or two without undue stress. Certainly there is no reason why Comp Lit 166 should have been moved to the already overcrowded noon hour...
...Registrar, however, were empowered to arrange lecture hours, with the assent of the various departments, there would be fewer mixups of this sort. This system would demand qualitative judgments which would not always be easy; an IBM machine cannot distinguish between Comp Lit 166 and English 10, but a perceptive administrator can. There is no reason why courses cannot be scheduled according to the needs of both instructors and students, instead of the whims of the autonomous departments...