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...system as it was used this year ended up in a great deal of griping and confusion," Robert Verlin, head section man of Soc Sci 2, declared. Verlin, who supervised the selection of 300 out of more than 900 applicants, noted that "only half of those accepted even bothered to show up at the sectioning meeting' yesterday...
Most students at Harvard and Radcliffe don't go to bed until 1 or 2 a.m. Neither, so it seems, do the professors; course offerings at this early hour are meager. Mathematics for non-mathematicians (Nat Sci 116) allows students to bridge the two cultures without wetting their feet in a torrent of labs. One of the key problems in modern thought, "Value and Explanation in Social Theory," and some of the key modern thinkers--Kierkagaard, Neitzsche, Dewey, and Mannheim--structure Soc Sci 115. For those whose roomates are so lovable that there is no outlet for hostilities...
...hour and two cups of coffee later all occupied in the great enterprise of learning are more fit to march on. Many are so aroused they will march to "War" (Soc Sci 112)--Stanley Hoffman's full course on the even chapters of Tolstoy's novel. While others take up the cudgels in a life or death struggle with Chem 20, Thomas Schelling will offer "Games and Strategy" (Ec 135) for those who are combative in a refined...
...same time that oldies but goodies Hist 142 and Hist 163 great revolutions of the past, Professor Orlando Fals-Borda of the National University of Columbia discusses upheavals of the present in Soc Sci 117, "Revolutionary Forces in Latin America." Few will want to miss the "History of the Book" (Hum 122), it may be their only chance to visit Houghton Library. Eng 200a, "Anglo-Saxon Poetry" gives one of the colleges best lectures, William Afred, a podium to display his wares on more limited topics than those to which he is accustomed in Hum 2 or English...
While the giants--Ec 1, Hist 169, Nat Sci 5, and Fine Arts 13--siphon off great bands of students, Erik Eriksons' Soc Sci 139 (Bust to Dust) initiates the ignorant in the mysteries of the life cycle, a modest subject on which Erikson's expertise has gained world acclaim, Life, writ large and lustily, is also a prime topic in one of the college's best (and toughest) English courses. "Chaucer" (Eng 115). For those with a yen for comparative studies, Professor Giovanni Sartori of the University of Florence holds forth in Gov 112b, "Political Systems of Continental Europe...