For those who want to avoid Social Relations, here is a field that offers a case study in human relations from the past. Department head C. Crane Brinton '19 calls history one of the best ways of extending your experience and his department has the top-light lecturers with which to make your experience in it extremely rewarding.

The history concentrator can follow his interests pretty much as he wants, since the requirements are flexible. He must take five full history courses and one related course in Government, Economics, Social Relations, or certain second group General Education Courses.

Tutorial for everybody is the department's aim for next fall. Until now, it's been for almost every sophomore maintaining a group IV average or better.

About half of the History concentrators go for honors, and most make at least a cum laude. Honors candidates tend to take about eight full courses in history, including three half credits in individual tutorial.

Exam for non-Honors

Non-honors men are also required to pass a special field examination at the end of their senior year. In addition, they must take at least one half course in three of the four major divisions--Ancient and Medieval Europe, Modern Europe, the Americas, and Asia. There are 16 special fields besides, from among which concentrators must select one for more intensive work.

History 1, the old grand survey pre-requisite for concentrators, was eliminated last year. The replacement, Social Sciences 1 does not pack in the solid factual background of its predecessors; moreover, it cannot be counted for concentration.

The department has made course changes not listed in the preliminary course catalogue. Continental Europe (132) will be divided in half. Langer, the great drawing card, will return from a leave of absence to teach the second half, 1870 to 1914. Carl E. Schorske, professor of History at Wesleyan, will give from 1815 to 1870.

Many of the star lecturers will take leaves of absences next year. Fairbank and Hammond are on leave for both team, Jordan for the gall semester, and Karpovich and Taylor for the spring.

There is still a great galaxy left. Most find History 61a and b, The Growth of the American Nation and the Making of Modern America, worthwhile even if cut and dry. Merk is well-organized and Bender always violently anti-South for his three Civil War lectures in the first half. Schlesinger worships New Dealism and buck good Republicanism in the second part.

Dow on Greece

Dow's Greek course, 106, History of Greece, usually appeals to the Ancient History fan for its straight-forwardness. If you decide not to take this course, you are probably in for Gilmore's 130, The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation, which is rated fairly high.

One of the best courses in the department is Owen's account of modern England since 1815 (142b).

Merk really shines in Westward Movement (162) despite his demand for minute detail on exams, and Schlesinger, Jr. makes his lectures both entertaining and controversial in American Intellectual History (169).

Besides having the only woman full professor in the College, Helen Maud Cam, History boasts one of the strongest faculties in the College. It's not too rough and not too easy, but just the right field for a good liberal arts training with that follow-your-interest atmosphere.