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...Stud Department was formed as a derivative of the undergraduate Architectural Sciences Department, which will dissolve as soon as this year's Arch Sci juniors and sophomores graduate. The new department expected about 20 students to apply because that's how many applied to Arch Sci. The course requirements haven't changed so drastically, but the departmental promotion propaganda...
Arch Sci always had about twice as many freshmen interested as eventually concentrated; but the major was played down. Its existence was even more ambiguous than Vis Stud's. Being part of the Graduate School of Design, the program's requirements and tutors geared studies to architecture and background knowledge essential to becoming an architect...
...concentrators took course after course at the VAC and added them to their Arch Sci credits. Up until now that was the closest you could come to majoring in Vis Stud. The Fine Arts Department would often give credit for VAC courses, but Arch Sci even taught the nitty gritty of its own basic requirements, Arch Sci 20-21, and 30-31, at the Carpenter Center...
UNFORTUNATELY for Vis Stud, it got too much great publicity when it became a major. And freshmen are missing the message on Vis Stud the same way they used to miss it with City Planning. Some have come frothing to their advisors claiming their right to concentrate in the field of their choice at Harvard, to which advisors have answered mostly with comparisons to other limited majors like Social Studies and History...
Only four of the original 24 tales are used-two in each act. But Chaucer loses remarkably little from the abridgement. First comes the Miller's Tale of Nicholas, the Oxford stud, Absolon, the clerk, and their rivalry for sexy Alison. Then comes the Reeve's account of the hot pillow goings-on in the Miller's family. The show's multiple bed hoppings are cleverly managed by representing the beds with vertically hung sheets and blankets, behind which the actors slip...