Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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SOCIAL SCIENCES Instruction in the social sciences is given chiefly in specific disciplines — history, government, economics, so- ciology — organized as departments. Though the under- graduate often concentrates excessively in one of these disciplines, and though his teachers, as specialists, are often distrustful of other specialists, the interdependence of the social studies is a fact that is steadily forcing itself on the recognition of all. At Harvard there are two ways in which the undergraduate may break down the limitations of excessive specialization. Within the regular departmental concentrations he may with tutorial guidance work out a well-rounded group of courses; and, if he is an honors student he may, beginning with the class of 1944, concentrate in the new area of the social studies, covering a far wider range than has hitherto been possible. CRANE BRINTON Associate Professor of History v Ei a n h U K Tozzer, famed anthropologist a, id authority on Mayan Culture

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Us, are irtfl |20t losophy D exemplifies the attitude of the Philosophy Department. This course aims to give the student such self-knowledge, and such command of his mental instruments, as will be useful in any field of college work or professional activity. ROMANCE LANGUAGES Students today seem to be inte rested in language training more than literature, for courses in Spanish and some French classes are crowded, while usually popular literature courses and tutorial work have slipped. Still lectures go on. Humorous Professor Cons no longer tells about the days of the Marquise de Rambouillet, but Professor Morize spices dull subject matter about Voltaire and Ros- seau with stimulating bits of wit. Associate Professor Francon, Asso- ciate Professor Mercier, Dr. Rice and Mr. Penny are continuing to keep interest awake in the dreary rooms of Emerson and Sever Halls. The South American tendency and the rise of the Good- neighbor Policy has increased the number of potential rancheros who mill into the elementary Spanish courses. Graduate courses, too, have their share, as the influx of Latin Americans bring more men interested in Spanish drama, Old Spanish, and Spanish-American Literature. Italian Literature and Composition continue to be favored by artistically inclined students and Italian-speakers. SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE The Russian novelists, Russian Literature, and drama, as well as language are treated in various courses offered by this department. Slavic 1, Introduction to Russian Literature and Culture, and Slavic 7, the Russian Drama and Theater, both given by popular Professor Cross, have proved interesting to a large number of students this year, who wanted to gain a working knowledge of Russia without learning the language. Meanwhile, for military and economic reasons, the num- ber in Slavic 10, Elementary Russian, has greatly expanded. Philology courses in the forms of Old Slavic, and Introductions to Ukrainian, Serbo-croatian, and Polish are offered for linguists. The works of Pushkin, Merezhkovski, Leskov, Turgeniev, are discussed in courses with Professors Lednicki and Cross for the benefit of scholars inter- ested in literature and the novel. Spencer (reals English literature from Shakespeare to T. S. Hint {21} A. N. WHITEHEAD Professor of Philosophy, Fmeritus D. C. WILLIAMS Assoc. Prof, of Philosophy LOUIS CONS Late Professor of French Literature J. D. M. FORD Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages ANDRE MORIZE Professor of French Literature GUILLERMO RIVERA Associate Professor of Spanish L. F. SOLANO G. B. WESTON Assoc, Prof, of Itonuincr L: tii(ul|M Associate Professor ..f Woinanci Language , Knierilii R. H. PFEIFFER Lecturer on Semitic I junom © WILLIAM THOMSON lira ■ f i Prof mot of rt bta If. A WOLFSON Littmi ' -r EVofMMM M J «i»h Literature mnl Philo-nphy S. H. CROSS ProfflNBf of Hlslie l unu i»if- nikI LitefStltfM

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ANTHROPOLOGY Anthropology is the study of man, and at Harvard this study is subdivided into Archaeology — the remains of man. Ethnology — the culture of man, Ethnography — the distribution of man, and Physical Anthropology — the biology of man. Thus Anthropology, hybrid that it is, falls in part into the Natural Sciences, part in the Social Sciences, while it has been combined with Biology, Sociology, and the Classics to make combination fields. The concentrators in Anthropology at Harvard, most of whom are in Social Anthropology, study savages, measure Indians, dig for Aztec relics, ponder over old bones, and learn the actions and inter- actions of societies under four noted professors; Professor Hooton in Physical-Anthropology, Professor Tozzer in Archaeology and Social Anthropology; and Associate Professors Carlton Coon, and Clyde Kluckhohn in Ethnology and Social Anthropology, respectively. Headquarters of the department is Peabody Museum, which has one of the country ' s best collections and the best library of an- thropological literature. ECONOMICS Economics concentrators say that the Economics Department is running the finances of the country. That is quite near the truth, for most of the faculty are either in Washington or make frequent trips there. Several professors are lost for the duration, and others will soon leave. At the present time most of the courses deal with theory, but war pressure is changing this academic picture. Con- centrators, many of whom go on to the Business School or the Law School, can choose from a long list of courses on general, American, European and International Economics, or go into the principles underlying banking, finance, accounting, or public utilities. Even such unusual fields as the Economics of Socialism, and a course on Karl Marx show the alertness of the department to modern affairs. Even before the war began, the department experimented with the economy of defense and war, and now gives a regular course in that subject. c. s. COON Assoc. Prof, of Anthropology E. A. HOOTON Professor of Anthropology A. M. TOZZER J. D. BLACK ProfcaMr of Anthropology Lee Professor of Economies H. H. BURBANK E. H. CHAMBERLIN Wells Professor of Pol. Kconomy I ' rofrssor of Economic! W. L. CRUM Ptovmmi f Ki ' nitoNiie GOTTFRIED HABERLER ProfHeof of BoononlM Museum Director PleasanK sets up a new exhibit A. H. HANSEN I iti 1. 1. 1 Prof of Pol. K. my S. E. HARRIS »o. , rntfi— lit of Economic 03 W. W. 1.EONTIEF KM, I ' r ' -f- r ' ' ' lit. n.p K. S. MASON I i.l l. .ilH.IIlKil