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Five new wartime courses are slated to be given in the second semester, and five others will be repeated from the first half-year, in order that highly trained men may be prepared for technical fields, the Faculty announced. A total of 26 courses provide special training and orientation...
Indirectly, a student following the accelerated program may also save on the total expenses of his college career. For those who complete their work in two full terms and three summers, the total tuition charge will be some $200 less. Also, a student will save a half-year of room, board, and other expenses...
...courses to be offered in the second semester, two are in History, one in Government, one in Economics and one in Japanese. The latter course, Japanese 6b, is a half-year study of Elementary Japanese...
...intensive. Classes are scheduled to meet five times a week and in certain cases the lectures will be longer than one hour, thus making possible the completion of approximately the same amount of work in 12 weeks that is accomplished during 14 weeks of actual instruction in the current half-year. That is to say, instead of completing four half courses as is done in the first term of the regular session, two whole courses will be completed in the 12-weeks' summer session...
...strong argument against minimizing the final half-year is that Harvard requires fewer courses than most colleges already, making it up with tutorial and other extra-curricular study. The whole question settles down to the problem of giving every Senior every possible opportunity to make up that last lap and so get his degree. No general policy need be adopted; probably there will not be more than fifty or sixty cases, so that each can be considered individually. If Joe Doakes '42 can't finish up before he leaves, he should be encouraged to do so afterwards. A degree...