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...false starts. Hank Schwarz's "Don Juan in Nebraska" is one such, and few will hold the editors to their pledge to continue the narrative in future numbers. "Who's on Third?" by Jim Parry is another regrettable venture, as is Tom Houston's cluttered little "Ballad of Nat Sci...
...Department of Architectural Sciences claims most of the nicknames: Arch Sci 20-21, Visual Composition, "Chaos and Confusion"; Arch Sci 105, The Development of Landscape Architecture, "Lawnmowers and Hedge Cutters"; Arch Sci 110, Introduction to Urban Planning, "Huts and Ruts"; and Arch Sci 124, Introduction to Design in the Visual Arts, "Spots and Dots" (a name often used for Fine Arts 171, Twentieth Century Painting...
Among the single-word nicknames, less common in Harvard lore and legend, are "Mousetraps" for Engineering 274b, Sanitary Parasitology including rodents and rodent controls; "Stars" for Nat Sci 9 on Astronomy; "Rocks" for Nat Sci 10 on Geology; "Gladiators" for History 109, History of the Roman Empire; and "Wheels" occasionally heard for Physics...
...addition, George Wald's two-year-old Nat Sci 5, The Nature of Living Things, has been termed "Baby Bio" by its devotees. One of the best known nicknames was "Wagon Wheels" for Frederick Merk's now-defunct course on the History of the Westward Movement. Outsiders sometimes called it "Cowboys and Indians...
...problem was that many of the characters are no longer studied in the course, and several references to Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead passed unnoticed. But it was still a lot of fun, even if I won't be able to take another Soc Sci 2 paper seriously...