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...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...
...result, of course, was that non-concentrators found it difficult if not impossible to get into the course, and the responsibility for this situation is conspicuously the English Department's, and not Professor Brower's. But justice demands that the use of English concentration as a criterion for admission should cease, whether or not it will cause some slight damage to those English students who are excluded...
...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...
Only the very good and the very brave get up at nine. And only they would take Slavic Aab (Sever 20), two terms of Russian somehow jammed into one. Other-directed linguists can attend Comp Lit 157 (Sever 8), where Professor Hatfield examines German Drama from Gleist to the Expressionists in the European context. The course is restricted to those who read German, but who doesn...
Some chaps insist on speaking English before 10 o'clock coffee; for them there is still much to do. Philhellenics (there are many) can meet at Harvard 1 to hear Professor Wade-Gery's views on the Greek Renaissance and Archaic Greek, History 106. And next door in Harvard 3, Professor Pipes pre-dates the "We will bury you" era with History 155, Russia to the end of the Eighteenth Century...