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VARIOUS CHANGES SINCE ISSUE OF PAMPHLET

Changes in Courses Offered by Faculty of Arts and Sciences for This Year.

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New Courses.

Semitic 8. Post-Biblical Hebrew. Selections from the Talmud, Midrash, and Biblical commentaries. Three times a week. Dr. Wolfson.

Semitic 9 hf. Jewish Literature and Life from the Second to the end of the Seventeenth Century. Half-course (second half-year). Mon., Wed., Fri., at 9. Dr. Wolfson.

Semitic 21 hf, Introduction to Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy. Half-course (second half-year). Three times a week. Dr. Wolfson.

History 59 hf. History of Mexico and Central America. Half-course (first half-year.) Mon., Wed., Fri., at 1.30. Asst. Professor P. A. Martin (Leland Standford, Jr., University).

Education 12 hf. Play in Education. General course for Teachers, Principals, Superintendents of Schools, Social Workers, and others. Half-course (first half-year). Tu., Th., at 11, with conferences, observations, and demonstrations, at hours to be arranged. Mr. George E. Johnson.

Education 20h. Play and Recreation. Technical course for Teachers, Play-ground Directors, and Social Workers. Sat., 10 to 12, with conferences, observations, demonstrations, and practical exercises, at hours to be arranged. Mr. George E. Johnson.

Zoology *10hf. Genetics (advanced course). Lectures on special topics, such as the ancestry of domesticated animals, the determination of sex, orthogenesis, mutation, and selection; reviews of genetic literature and reports by members of the class. Half-course (first half-year). Hours to be arranged. Professor Castle. This course is open to those who have passed in Course 2.

Courses by Visiting Lecturers.

GOVERNMENT.

Government *24. The Budget in European Governments,--Preparation, Discussion, Voting, Application and Accounting. Mon., Wed., and (at the pleasure of the instructor) Fri., at 11. Professor Dupriez (University of Louvain). The lectures will be in English. Ability to read ordinary French and German will be expected.

Government 25 hf. Proportional Representation in Europe and America.--systems of Plural, Class Multiple, Cumulative, and Distributed Voting. Half-course (first half-year). Mon., Wed., Fri., at 9. Professor Dupriez (University of Louvain). The lectures will be in English. Ability to read ordinary French will be expected.

Government 26 hf. Executive Power in Central Europe. The Hierarchy; Ordinances; Responsibility Relations to City Government. Half-course (second half-year). Mon., Wed., Fri., at 9. Professor Dupriez (University of Louvain). The lectures will be in English. Ability to read ordinary French will be expected.

Government 20h. Selected Topics in Parliamentary Government and European Systems. Professor Dupriez (University of Louvain).

PHILOSOPHY.

Philosophy *13 hf. History of Mediaeval Philosophy. Study of the Development of Philosophical Ideas. Half-course (first half-year). Tu., Th., Sat., at 10. Professor De Wulf (University of Louvain).

Philosophy 27 hf. Scholastic Metaphysics. Interpretation of Aristotle by St. Thomas Aquinas. Readings from De Ente et Essentia and from De Unitate Intellects. Half-course (first half-year). Fri., 3.30-5. Professor De Wulf (University of Louvain).

Courses Omitted in 1915-16.

Greek 1a hf. The Period of Athenian Supremacy.

Classical Philology 4 hf. The Elder Pliny's Account of the History of Ancient Art.

History 22 hf. The Elements of Latin Paleography.

History 16. History of Spain and Portugal and of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires.

History 31 hf. Selected Topics from the History of Continental Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

History 42. The Age of the Renaissance in Europe.

History 58 hf. The Social History of England to 1750.

Government 19. American Constitutional Law: A Study of Constitutional Principles and Limitations throughout the United States.

Economics 7b hf. The Single Tax, Socialism, Anarchism.

Economics 32 hf. The Economics of Agriculture.

Economics 20h. Mediaeval Agrarian History.

Other Changes.

Greek 1b hf. will be given as follows:

Greek Literature.--The period of Athenian Supremacy. Herodotus (Books VII and VIII); Aeschylus (Persians); Plutarch (Themistocles). Half-course (first half-year. Mon., Wed., Fri., at 11. Dr. Phoutrides. Students who had planned to take Greek 1a hf. should consult with Professor Gulick.

Classical Philology 36 hf. Cicero and Humanism, will be given by Professor E. K. Rand. Three times a week, at hours to be arranged. Course 36 is also open to properly qualified undergraduates.

Classical Philology 76 hf. The Historia Ecclesiastic of Eusbeius, will be given in the first half-year instead of the second half-year, as previously announced.

Romance Philology 6 hf., Portuguese, will be given in the first half-year.

On account of the return of Professor Allard, French 16 and 24, which were bracketed in the first edition of the Elective Pamphlet, will be given.

Owing to the death of Professor M. A. Potter, Italian 4 and 12 will not be given.

Physics 4c hf., Radiotelegraphy, will be given on Tu., Th., at 9. Asst. Professor G. W. Pierce and Dr. Chaffee.

The following notes have been added to Chemistry 5:

In 1915-16 Courses 5 may be taken without laboratory work, as a half-course, by students who have passed Course 22 or its equivalent.

For students who take Course 5 as a full course and who have passed 22, the laboratory work in Course 5 will be more advanced in nature.

BOTANY.

In place of Zoology and Botany 11 hf., will be substituted.

Botany 11 hf. The Principles of Genetics. Half-course (second half-year). Mon., Wed., and (at the pleasure of the in- structor) Fri., at 11. Professor East and an assistant.

ZOOLOGY.

Zoology 2 hf., Genetics and Eugenics, will be given in the first half-year. Mon., Wed., Fri., at 9. Professor Castle.

GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY.

For the changes in these courses see the new edition of the Elective Pamphlet. Changes are in Courses 4, 5, 16, 8, 12, 20c, 2, and 20a.

All the courses in Paleontology, except Paleontology 20, will be given in the second half-year.

On account of the resignation of Dr. J. M. W. Bunker, Hygiene and Sanitation 2 and 20b will be given by Mr. M. C. Whipple.

HISTORY.

History 8 hf., History of France to 1328, will be given in the second half-year by Professor Haskins. Tu., Th., at 2.30, and a third hour by appointment.

History 56 hf., South America, will be given by Professor M. de Oliveira Lima and Asst. Professor P. A. Martin (Leland Stanford, Jr., University).

History 57 hf., Recent Commercial History of Latin America, will be given by Dr. Julius Klein. The hours have been changed to Tu., Th., Sat., at 12.

History 20h. Topics in the History and Present Conditions of Latin America, will be given in the first half-year by Professor M. de Oliveira Lima and Asst. Professor P. A. Martin (Leland Stanford, Jr., University); in the second half-year, by Dr. Julius Klein.

ECONOMICS.

Economics 18a hf., Analytical Sociology, will be given in the second half-year.

Economics 23, Economic History of Europe from the Thirteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century, will be given by Asst. Professor N. S. B. Gras of Clark College. Wed., Fri., at 2.30, and a third hour at the pleasure of the instructor.

Owing to Professor Carver's appointment as Exchange Professor to the Western Colleges, for the second half-year, Economics 8, Principles of Sociology, will be given as a half-course in the first half-year

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