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...have been combined into one course to be known as Geology 1. This change is the result of a trend which has been going on in the course for the past three years. With the consent of the instructor, however, the student may count the first half-year's work for credit...
Comparative Literature 6, a new course on the English Epic and narrative poetry, as influenced by classical literature, which will be given by J. B. Munn '12, professor of English in the second half-year, heads the list of change in that department. C. N. Greenough '98, professor of English, will give a half-course on English and American thought and expression from 1700 to 1800, to be called English 94. Two new half-courses which will normally form a full course will be known as English 25a and 25b. They will deal with Anglo-Saxon poetry. English 75, which...
...Johns Hopkins University, will be the second holder of the William James Lectureship established in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology by the bequest of the late Edgar Pierce. Professor Lovejoy will give a series of eight lectures on Mondays and Thursdays at the beginning of the second half-year on "The Grace Chains of Beings": the History of an Idea...
...natural desire among college undergraduates that there be some course presented to equip them with blueprints of future possibilities in their relation to past experience. Such a course Harvard's Economic department presents as Economics 7c, subtitled "Problems of Social Reconstruction," which is given during the first half-year, and is open to men who have taken Economics...
This course obviously could be of immense value, but as with many of its half-year brothren, its ambitions are frustrated by the limitations of four months. Beginning with a discussion of the Marxian analysis and the minor satellites of anarchism, syndicalism, and guild socialism, Economics 7c goes on to consider tactics and concludes with a hasty survey of the economic problems involved in the creation and maintenance of any alternative system to capitalism. The result is necessarily superficial, reminiscent of the proverbial lick and a promise...