Tutorial will be extended to all sophomores and juniors starting next year. Its purpose is three-fold, according to Chairman Arthur Smithies: 1) to make specific things brought up in classes more concrete, 2) to tie the economics courses together, 3) to bring out the inter-relationships between economics and other areas such as government and history.

"All departments have to rely heavily on comparatively inexperienced teaching fellows," Smithies said. "It would be much better on the whole if tutorial could be handled by assistant professors, but, of course, the University can't afford to do that.

"Many of the tutors haven't either tutored before or even been tutored. We take pains to have frequent meetings of our staffs. They are getting on-the-spot training. The success of tutorial at Oxford and Cambridge is that it is done by very experienced people. We are trying to achieve the same results with less experienced men."

Economics I, required of every concentrator, is designed to ease students gently into the field. Some have criticized it as being much too general and elementary. For the non-concentrator, however, it is ideal.

Above the Economics I level are a number of more specialized, more comprehensive courses in the fields of economic theory, economic history, money and finance, market organization and control, and labor economics and social reform. Popular courses include Ec. 181a and b, Labor and Social Reform, Ec. 161, Marketing Organzation and Control, and Ec. 141, Money and Finance.

Non-honors men must take a minimum of four courses in Economics, honors candidates, five, although the latter group may elect Ec. 99 for one term only in order to work on their 40,000 word theses. Currently about 30 percent of the concentrators are honors candidates.

What Harvard Economics attempts to do is to develop the economic background to social and political issues, not to teach men how to make a mint by their mid-thirties.

Making an allusion to the current dispute over President Truman's Steel Seizure, Smithies said that this problem can be attacked from at least two angles. A Government major would be concerned with the political relationship between the Democrats and labor and industry, whole an Economic concentrator would study the rate of profits in the steel industry and the likely effect of a wage increase in the rest of industry.

English

Number on Concentrators: 486.

1951 Commencement Honors: cum, 25; magna, 7; summa, 4.

During the next few years the field of English may well experience a great increase in popularity. The reason for this is the Department's recent revamping of English 1.

This monstrous survey course, which raced through English literature from the "beginning" to the "present," proved too great an obstacle for many potential concentrators. Not only the vast expanse of material to be covered, but also the dullness of presentation caused students to turn towards History and Government instead.

But early this year, English 1 was scrapped for English 10, which is now required of all concentrators. Unfortunately, the nature of such an introductory course requires that it be rather a large survey. Professor Baker, well-known for his English 160 (drama since Ibsen), will lecture during the fall term of the new course, and Professor Bate will conduct the spring term.

The Department has divided the field into chronological periods and types of literature, which are poetry, drama, fiction, criticism, and philosophy. These chronological periods serve to guide the student through his distribution requirements within the department. One full course, for example, is required in either Chaucer or early drama; Professor Whiting's English 115 (Chaucer) is frequently used to satisfy this requirement.