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...Housemasters have attacked the problem by cramming students into every square foot of available space, and administrators of freshman course might be expected, similarly, to make maximum use of whatever teaching facilities they have. The department of General Education has not done this, however. In five of the ten lower-level courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the department has retained enrollment limits that serve to turn disappointed freshmen away from courses they want to take and to pile up astronomical numbers of these students in the one or two courses that have room for them...
...about two weeks from now, the IBM machines of University Hall will spew forth the latest statistics on course enrollment at the College. As the whole freshman class--together with its advisors, its section men, and its lecturers--already knows, these figures will show that lower-level courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences are more crowded this fall than ever before...
...remark made yesterday by a lecturer in the Social Sciences, who observed that "if you have enrollment limits you've got to have disappointed freshmen." One obvious step toward improving the situation for next year, then, is simply to expand or remove the limits on several of the lower-level General Education courses. There is really no reason why courses like Social Sciences 2 and 4, which meet primarily in lectures, should have limited enrollments. Lecturing to 400 students cannot be much more difficult than lecturing...
...idea that is already being used by Social Sciences 1, 2 and 6. These, three courses, whose contents are more or less similar, have arranged this fall to "trade" section men in order to alleviate overcrowding wherever it is greatest. This method would not work for all lower-level Humanities and Social Sciences courses--some meet chiefly in section and therefore need specialized instructors--but there is no reason why its use cannot be expanded. Social Sciences 4, for example, could probably get in on the section man pool, and Humanities 2, 4, and 5 might very well establish...
...freshman adviser charged last night that the lower-level "General Education courses have not expended with the student body," and as a result many of his advisees were forced to make their choices of Humanities and Social Sciences courses not on the basis of which course they wanted to take, but "on which course had room for them." The problem did not exist with the Natural Sciences courses, he said, because many students are permitted to waive that requirement...