Government IA is, in at least one sense, an excellent introduction to the field. It is complex, sometimes times rather mixed, sometimes confusing, partly confusing, partly confused itself, partly unsatisfying and yet for many can prove to be one of the most intresting and most memorable of College experiences.

The student concentrating in the College's biggest field--partly because it is the biggest--must make up his mind exactly what he wants and then thread his way carefully.

Three Sections

Government can be and is to many now one on the finest excuses known to the undergraduate for procuring a diploma with the minimum of work. To others it can be tough as Chemistry and take just as many hours of hard labor.

The department, which corresponds to what other institutions call Political Sciences, divides itself into three areas: American, International, and Political Theory and Comparative Institutions.

Each student must take some courses in each area, but must choose one for his particular attention. Generals are required for all with divisionals and a thesis added for honors. The area chosen obviously may have a good deal to do with the concentrator's rate of labor, and with his satisfaction with the department.

Although the report of the faculty of advising makes the point that all men cannot get tutorial in the "big five" fields like Government, it is now possible for almost every man in this department, who is willing to struggle to get some degree of tutorial instruction. Just last year it was extended automatically to all men in or above group IV.

Picking good courses is a harder problem since each man is required to take a certain number in his own area, and each area has its share of week offerings.

In the American area many of the latter have come up in the last two years McClosky and Maass are good examples. The additions of V. C. Key who will enter the department from Yale next fall will greatly strengthen this section Cherington, whose course is almost a necessity for all concentrators, has a reputation for intresting his students; students usually find themselves sitting next to people from the Humanities and the Natural Sciences both.

Week International Field

International Law and Relations are somewhat weaker than it would have been had Professor Bunche been able to come. But the future is not so blast as the catalogue makes it look. McGeorge Bundy is still expected back next year. Although he arrived only last year he succeeded in making a popular places for himself as far as both students and the department are concerned.

The best known of professors in the Political Theory and Comparative Government section are Friederich and Beer. Perhaps because none of their courses is easy, this area of the Government Department has the reputation for being toughest of the three. Again, Beer relatively new.

The other professors in the field give interesting courses, but, even with their age and experience, often find themselves outclassed by the brilliant abilities of the younger men, at least so far as students are concerned. And yet, it is these new men who have added to the Department a reputation for toughness which before their arrival only or two teachers had upheld. (Friederich still out-pressures all in 106).

Students just entering the field nov will have the first line of the department. Elliott is still confusing some with his provocative and much advanced lectures on theory in Government 1, though a new text book helps straighten out neophytes. Cherington and Friedrich, however, will replace Holcombe in the next fall. This change should make what many considered the duller half of the required course, as interesting, perhaps more so than is, certainly just as mealy

Conscientious Shirker

Many of the department's courses can be avoided by the conscientious shirker and there are a number of the white-shoe clientele in the department. Other men will plod through a schedule which includes, for instance: (besides Gov. 1)., Gov. 112 and 113, 124, 135, 135 and 106 (seniors only). Their impression of Government as a field of concentration will be quite different from that of their brethren as will their education.

Government is too often looked on a concentration in the morning's current events. This is true to a certain extent for those who want it that way. But there is always Friedrich on Plato or McClosky on the Supreme Court for the other breed, who are willing to pay for a more nourishing diet.