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Enrollment and concentration in the Classics Department especially in Greek, have risen sharply since last year, Eric A. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin announced yesterday. Havelock believes the interest here in Greek in unique in this country...
...Havelock also struck at the fact that "much of the Latin instruction introduced in high schools is pretty poor stuff...
...students now concentrating in some phase of Greek or Latin represent a 75 per cent increase over the post-war number. While new interest in Latin has not been as noticeable as in Greek, there is increased interest in both languages. Havelock said the Department's encouraging dual concentration with subjects like French or English has played a large part in the increase...
...Most important," Havelock stressed, "has been the introduction of classics in the General Education courses, which help stimulate interest...
Passionately addicted to self-scrutiny, the 20th century started out talking and worrying about its sex life with a nervous intensity that would have appalled earlier ages; it made prophets of Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis and that Baedeker of sexual abnormality, Richard von Krafft-Ebing. What remained was for someone to link the age's preoccupation with sex to its passion for statistics. That job was taken on, not surprisingly, by an American-Alfred Charles Kinsey of Bloomington, Ind., zoologist by training, who was determined to observe the sex behavior of the human animal with the scientific methods...