Word: hums
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...form. Berkeley's Letters and Sciences program will require the Class of '83 to fulfill a math requirement stressing logic and quantitative reasoning as well as a foreign language requirement. The school, which already requires American history and American institutions courses, is also modifying its Nat Sci, Soc Sci, Hum distribution requirement to make students take courses in both areas outside of their major...
...being able to take his heart's delight with him, bequeathed it to the populace. The spectacular park in Soochow bears, after 41/2 centuries, the sardonic name of Humble Administrator's Garden; the grounds were constructed over 16 years by a corrupt official who was anything but hum ble. After his death it was gambled away by his son hi one night. A mountain on the Li River is called Elephant Trunk Hill be cause, with only a slight squint of the imagination, it looks like a mighty pachyderm slurping from the stream. An adorn ment of Peking...
Albert B. Lord '34, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature who teaches Hum 9a, said he doubted his course would ever grow as big as Ec 10. "I'm delighted to have 628 students," he said...
Enrollment in several other large courses, including Chemistry 20a, "Organic Chemistry," and Fine Arts 13, "Introduction to the History of Art," also dropped slightly compared to last year. The Top Ten Economics 10 993 Hum 9a 628 Nat Sci 110 504 Soc Sci 160 429 Nat Sci 19 413 Math 1a 412 Fine Arts 13 403 Astronomy 8 396 Chemistry 20a 380 Soc Sci 15a 374 Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," led the College's list of most popular courses again this year...
...plan actually calls for students to take only one course in the last group, and three in Literature and the Arts, but this is subject to change. And while thus far no one has devised clever abbreviations for the areas to match the beloved Nat Sci, Soc Sci and Hum, the Faculty is establishing a four-year phasing-in period, which should allow plenty of time for such niceties later...