Word: various
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These articles on the various Fields of Concentration will appear in the "Confidential Guide" next September. Therefore the current year is referred to as "last year," etc. Criticisms will be welcome...
...headed. It is now a second half year course and could easily be increased to a full year, and if laboratory arrangements could be provided, they would be very valuable. One good point in the course is that it brings in men from the Faculties of the various fields with which it is connected...
...meetings, many students criticized Government and Economics for not having enough courses in history, and History for lacking instruction in theory; for example, one cannot take History 1 without realizing that the fundamental principle of the Middle Ages was unity. If some concentrators want a philosophical approach to the various theories by which History has been interpreted, instead of a commentary upon historical institutions, let them try Philosophy 9a. Or, students may cover this material in tutorial work...
That droning--an airplane? Japs? Germans? Reds? It swells and fades, angry, important, businesslike. Ah, a wasp, or is it a hornet, zooms gracefully through the window and roars headlong into the closet. Sudden silence. Probably sampling the various gravy and beer spots on the Vagabond's suit. That'll hold him for a while--maybe kill him. The Vagabond relaxes: let's see, history review today. Damn, action again. The wasp-hornet breezes out of the closet, squats on the bowl of a pipe, sharpens up his stinger with his hind legs, hums contentedly to himself...
Combining two different subjects into one field can easily produce an inchoate mixture of material, but this department, guided by an interest in various approaches--social, intellectual, constitutional, etc., has made of them a study of civilization. Admission into the field is selective and restricted to fifty from each class. The special fields are Greece, Rome, Germany, France, England, America, Middle Ages, Renaissance, 17th century, 18th century, and 19th century. Divisional exams strike almost at once; thus, in the spring of his Sophomore year, a concentrator takes a three-hour Bible and Shakspere; in the fall as a Junior...