Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Education has been peculiarly vulnerable to pressures from every department which wished to make concentration easier or more thorough. The English department's current attempt to annex Humanities 6 is the latest case in an almost unending war between the interdepartmental nature of General Education and the highly departmentalized form of Harvard College...
The difficulties arose last year when Hum 6 had more applicants than it could admit under its 200 limit, principally because a large number of potential English concentrators advised to take the course by members of ithe department swelled the ranks of would-be students. Recognizing that he could not...
The result, of course, was that non-concentrators found it difficult if not impossible to get into the course, and the responsibility for this situation is conspicuously the English Department's, and not Professor Brower's. But justice demands that the use of English concentration as a criterion for admission...
The English Department's use of Hum 6 is a combination of convenience (for it is thus unnecessary to give courses in criticism for potential concentrators) and salesmanship, since English is a more attractive major when one does not have to "waste" a year on General Education. In reality, however...
Wives of University students may join special obstetrical clinics, the University Health Services announced yesterday. The first clinic for expectant wives will be held this Thursday, 8-10 a.m., at the Out-Patient Department of the Boston Lying-In Hospital.