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John H. Finley Jr. Eliot Professor of Greek Literature and a professor of Hum 1, outlined some of the "special cases" which will require restricted enrollments. The new Hum 4, for example, plans to produce a play at the Loeb as part of its course work, and therefore can accommodate only a limited number of candidates...
...courses selected for pre-registration are Humanities 1, 6, and 4 (the revised version of Hum 8), Natural Sciences 5 and 6, and Social Sciences 2. Other lower-level courses, for which the Administration does not anticipate any special crowding problems, will be open to regular enrollment at Fall registration...
...core of teen-age ambivalence when she half proudly, half sorrowfully apologizes to her beau for passing a final exam: "I got 75. I'm sorry, I had pressure from my parents. I had to." Later, squatting on a deserted subway platform late at night to strum and hum folksongs, the two embrace all of a troubled generation's inchoate longings in one full, quiet moment. At such moments Nobody Waved Good-Bye conquers its simple ideas and tangled verbiage with cool cinematic assurance, turning a problem play into a poem...
Then tone was considered. The astronaut might hum different notes, and a simple device could translate this code into control commands. This system, which has been widely used in telephone switching, was rejected, says the report, because it relies "on musical skills not naturally possessed to any marked extent by the average astronaut...
...Social Sciences and Humanities, however, general education means more than training in methodology or style of thought. What it does mean no one has yet been able to specify. Some Soc Sci and Hum courses present a cross-departmental overview of an area. Others treat important topics that do not fall clearly in any department. Still others use the Gen Ed rubric to introduce the student to the great men and books of Western Civilization. They all, however, share a common purpose: to interest the beginning student in broad academic topics that are in that area, central to the understanding...