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...Emerson 211; his lectures are always interesting and original. Probably the most interesting course given in the History department this term can be heard in Harvard 4: Owen's British History since 1814. Owen's lectures are gems and the material is consistently interesting. Poggioli in Comp. Lit. 102 (Sever 7) and Kluckhohn in Anthropology 1b (Geographical Institute Auditorium). Poggioli, who is one of the most respected scholars and teachers in the University, calls his course "Ideas of Tragedy" and uses a broad historical approach to the subject. Kluckhohn knows almost everything there is to know about the Navahos...
Eleven o'clock: Professor Zechariah Chafee from the Law School is giving Comp. Lit. 181, a new course on copyright laws, in Sever 5. Chafee first hit the College circuit with Soc. Sci. 120 this fall, and ingratiated himself with his dramatic renditions of famous trials. Over in the Fogg Small Room, Professor K. J. Conant lectures on Modern Architecture (with slides) in Fine Arts 173. He also gives you a chance to build your own model later on in the term. McGeorge Bundy, one of the young members of the Government department, lectures on the U.S. in World Affairs...
Students have bicycles at Harvard in order to get to classes from distant river dormitories with maximum speed. The effectiveness of this mode of transportation depends heavily on using Quincy Street northbound. Else Emerson, Sever, Robinson, and Fogg become as isolated as a contagion ward. To cycle north on Prescott Street and then head south again to get to the right points on Quincy would indeed be an unlikely maneuver...
...plain that unless liberty of movement is maintained on Quincy, bicycles will rust in the stalls by the river dorms and Emerson, Sever, Robinson, and Fogg will have no more attendance than Soliders Field now on a Saturday afternoon...
Times arise, however, when the departments seem to lose interest in the Overseers. Author Walter D. Edmonds '26, a former Overseer, recalls with amusement frustrating attempts to hear several English professors. Warren House sent him to the wrong room, to classes that weren't meeting that day and finally to courses that were having guest lecturers. Edmonds was told a certain professor was in Washington, only to see him an hour later on the steps of Sever. "It is much easier," Edmonds concludes, "if you offer to lecture in place of the professor, since he is then certain...