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But a member of the economics department, which is home to the College’s largest concentration, expressed concern that secondary fields might actually increase the number of students in the department.
In introducing the legislation, Spelke said that the EPC hopes that the implementation of secondary fields “will serve to decrease the size of the largest concentrations and increase the size of the smaller fields.”
She explained that secondary fields would allow students to study popular and pragmatic areas—such as economics—while still choosing to declare a primary concentration in other, less popular disciplines.
After Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris introduced an amendment that would, among other things, delete seven words from the secondary fields legislation, Professor of German Peter J. Burgard pushed for an “amendment to the amendment” that would delete an additional four words...
After Wilfried Schmid, the Robinson professor of mathematics, said that because the words “such as” appeared in an explanatory note to the secondary fields legislation, the debate over double counting might be moot, Summers quipped, “Seems like an appropriate comment for a...