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History is a moderately sized department and is not subject to such booms as some other departments endure. You won't get the individual attention you will in the classics, but then again you won't get lost in History...
Motives for concentrating in German vary; most frequently German concentrators want to continue work with their subject after graduation from college...
History is a subject which still puts a premium on the memory. If you have a reasonably good one, if you can read a book and digest it--history isn't an awfully hard field. The biggest thing history has to offer is considerable range and freedom of choice. Six courses are all that are needed for concentration...
...these six, one must be a related course chosen from one of the social sciences other than history (i.e. Government, Economics, or Social Relations). A second course may be selected with the approval of the tutor or adviser from any subject closely related to the concentrator's special field. These minimum requirements allow a lot of room for what is fashionably called General Education...
Next week's speaker will be Herbert Phillips, one of three professors fired from the University of Washington last month for "loftist sympathies." His subject will be "The Value of Society...