Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since teaching fellows make up over 50 per cent of the Board of Freshman Advisers, the lack of Social Relations fellows has resulted in a poor representation of the field on the Board. Only one person from the Department is among the 117 advisers.
R.S. White '25, chairman of the Social Relations Department, said that "we did not realize the problem until quite recently, and will begin right away to encourage more Faculty members to become advisers. He pointed out that regular professors have "so many demands on their time already that they hesitate...
Until Social Relations 10 was introduced in 1957, the Department was "at a horrible disadvantage" in the race to recruit Freshmen, Pettigrew said. Most students, when they enter college, "have not the slightest idea what sociology is, although they are quite familiar with most other subjects."
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures will offer eight new half courses next year, three in Spanish, and one in Italian.
"Modern Spanish-American Literature," taught by Raimundo Lida, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, is one of the three new Spanish courses for 1959-60. The Department will also offer "The Enlightenment in Hispanic Literature," with emphasis on Feijoo, Cadalse, and Jovellano; and readings in "Unamuno and Ortega Y Gasset...