Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 of students in the field will have to find new tutors, and the Sophomores will, in general, get newly appointed tutors who have yet to learn the ropes. Finally, the omitting of such a basic course in the field as 52, Victorian Literature, is difficult to condone, especially since criticism has always been levelled...
Browsing at high pressure continues as the typification of the field. The Divisionals are deemed exceptionally severe, with courses 10, 21, 30, 40, 50 and 52 considered as key. The broad scope of the field made many of the concentrators agree that the most pleasant way to cover the field was through tutorial guidance, but such men declared that a coordination tutor, not a laissez-faire man, was essential for this mode of study. Of these tutors Munn was recommended as a great individual teacher, and Steel was declared one of the best tutors in the field. Chandled and Sedgwick...
Technical, historical, and general reading are all mixed together in this field. Generally speaking, reading lists are made out from the point of view of the group I, or perhaps an exceptionally bright group II, man and hence play into the hands of the tutoring schools. English 30 and 40 are fine examples of this. Everywhere one turns in English, one runs into an hour exam, usually a factual one. Midyears and finals are more general exams, but are invariably too long and too pedantic. Professor Jones' exams were more highly held than others, however. Another fault of English exams...
...composition courses in the field are fairly highly recommended, A-2 most highly, but the marks in them are on an unfairly high level when compared with other courses in the same field. A "B" necessitates only a little occasional effort. As for the public speaking courses there is more censure than praise, although the energy of Professor Packard was lauded in getting this part of the field in running order...
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. The special fields are Greece, Rome, Germany, France, England, America, Middle Ages, Renaissance, 17th century, 18th century, and 19th century. Divisional exams strike almost at once; thus, in the spring of his Sophomore year, a concentrator takes a three-hour Bible and Shakspere; in the fall as a Junior...