Tech Sets Up New Humanities Division

M.I.T. announced the establishment of a distinct School of Humanities over the weekend. The new division will take its place alongside schools of Engineering Sciences and Architectural Sciences.

Setting up the school was formalization of a trend toward general education at Tech that has been in progress since the 30's.

The core to which the Tech humanities program, which will occupy 25% of a student's time, will be tied is a random study of cultures, at six weeks per culture. This sort of work goes on for two years, after which the student specializes for a year and a half. Then he spends a last half year synthesizing what he has absorbed.