Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expanding its labor instruction, the department will make Economics 81, on Labor Problems, a full course, to be given by Professor Slichter, Dr. Reynolds, and Mr. Pollard. Social security, as well as the economics of labor, will be taught.
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...
Perhaps the most important forward step that the department has taken this year is the increase of emphasis on the cultural background of English literature rather than the scholarly side. Professor Munn and Professor Jones won praise for this, while certain lectures of Professor Lowes and Professor Magoun were criticized...
Combining two different subjects into one field can easily produce an inchoate mixture of material, but this department, guided by an interest in various approaches--social, intellectual, constitutional, etc., has made of them a study of civilization. Admission into the field is selective and restricted to fifty from each class...
Ever since its inception a "halo" has hug about the head of the department, glorifying its high aims and standards. Although it is no mistake to say that the field is one of the best, it is wrong to claim that it affords the broadest education and is thus the...