Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulties arose last year when Hum 6 had more applicants than it could admit under its 200 limit, principally because a large number of potential English concentrators advised to take the course by members of ithe department swelled the ranks of would-be students. Recognizing that he could not refuse admission to English concentrators without hurting their prospects in the field, Professor Brower was forced to give sophomores concentrating in English preference in admission...
...English Department's use of Hum 6 is a combination of convenience (for it is thus unnecessary to give courses in criticism for potential concentrators) and salesmanship, since English is a more attractive major when one does not have to "waste" a year on General Education. In reality, however, this policy perverts the fundamental philosophy of General Education and works considerable hardships on non-concentrators...
Either the enrollment limit of Hum 6 should be raised (which would be unfortunate, since the instructor should have a chance to make this decision without outside pressure), or the Department should stop encouraging students to take Hum 6, or a similar course, required of concentrators, should be created within the department. In any case, Professor Brower should stop giving concentrators special treatment. Only by such action will he be able to force members of the English department to recognize that the General Education program was not created for their own convenience...
Some places, people dine at noon; in Cambridge, it is the hour of decision. In this case, one man's steak is another man's roast beef. Arthur Schlesinger's History 169 (Room 18, 2 Divinity Avenue, Harry Levin's English 126 (Harvard 4), and Perry Miller's Hum 111 (Sever 18) are the competing extravaganzas...
...coffee time at the Bick. But for the "ultimately concerned" student, Professor Tillich joins his disciples in Emerson D where the air is thin and religion, art, and science are synthesized into a meaningful whole. Those who feel that Tillich's course, Hum 127a, is not sufficiently far out, may try epistemology with Mr. Pears of Oxford in Phil...