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Sargent Kennedy '28, registrar of the College, said that the new procedure was designed to eliminate incidents like one last year, when several hundred students camped out in a light rain to enroll in Nat Sci 6, a course in evolution. William W. Howells '30, professor of Anthropology, had predicted that the course, which he taught, would "attract all the least energetic minds in the University...
Sufferers from Soc Sci 1's traditionally monstrous reading list may receive some relief as a part of the course's transformation. The entire list will be reviewed this summer and may be altered or even shortened...
...survey-like exposure to the high points of Western tradition which the Redbook proposed, the focus of General Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences should be upon "an acquaintance with themes." More than anything else, this is a recognition and acceptance of what elementary Hum's and Soc Sci's are now doing...
...addition, the number of guest lecturers in the course will be drastically reduced, according to Bernhard Kummel, Professor of Geology and lecturer in Nat Sci 10. In the past, Kummel said, the guest lecturer program has tried to expose Nat Sci 10 students to some of Harvard's "rich personalities." Unfortunately, he added, the visitors have tended to "blow hot and cold...
Remnants of noontime glory will be Economics 1, Fine Arts 13, Natural Sciences 5, History 169, History 61, Nat Sci 9, English 115 and German...