Nat. Sci. 3 Section Men Will Study Student's Portrait With His Exam

Tomorrow afternoon section men in Natural Sciences 3 will start studying a portrait of course members as well as grading exams. Two weeks ago I. Bernard Cohen, professor of General Education and the History of Science, called in a professional photographer to take class pictures as the final step in his plan to "correlate students' faces with their names."

Cohen told the CRIMSON last night that he and Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics, and lecturer in Natural Sciences 1, have followed an intensive program of attaching faces rather than numbers to students for three years.

"We have a seating plan," Cohen explained, "and hold informal class discussions with students whose names are picked off the seating list. The pictures make it easier for both myself and the section men to grade papers and discuss students."

According to several students in Natural Sciences 3, Cohen's plan "really does work." One Radcliffe sophomore proclaimed yesterday: "there are about 160 people in the two sections of the course, but he actually does know all our names."