Pfeiffer, Harry A. Wolfson, Littaner Professor of Semitic Languages, and Professor William Thomson, Jewett Professor of Arabic teach Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Assyrian, and Syriac.

No thesis is required in the field; general examinations are given at the discretion of the professors.

Archaeology, ancient history, religion, and teaching are the main fields concentrators go into.

Slavic Languages

Number of Concentrators: 20.

1952 Commencement Honors: cum, 2; magna, 1.

Although Polish, Czechoslovakian, Serbo-Bulgarian, and Ukrainian are taught, in the department, the main emphasis in Slavic Languages and Literature is in Russian, lingual and literary.

The field, difficult because of the unfamiliarity of the languages, is perhaps even harder because most concentrators don't get into the field until their junior year. "Most sophomores are too occupied with required courses to enter the field," Horace G. Lunt, assistant professor in the department noted.

Concentrators find it much more, than a difficult language study, though. The general examination tests mainly a knowledge of Russian literature, with emphasis on the better-known writers--Tolstoi, Dostoevski, Pushkin. Theses, required only of honors candidates, generally are written on similar topics.

Social Relations

Number of Concentrators: 278.

1952 Commencement Honors: cum, 25; magna, 12; summa, 1.

Social Relations is probably the most liberal major in the liberal arts. The six courses required for concentration can be scattered in many fields, while only three half-courses must be in one specific area. Next year, the department plans to increase this flexibility, and also to cut down overlapping in courses, which has been the field's big drawback.

The Department of Social Relations was cut to three areas: Sociology, Social and Personal Psychology, and Social Anthropology. Concentrators must take four of their six required courses in these fields, and may fill in with courses in the Departments of Anthropology, Biology, Economics, Government, History, Philosophy, and Psychology.

One other change, designed to improve the field and raise the quality of the courses is the strengthening its psychology wing. Courses from the Psychology Department are being offered in this field of Social Relations.