College's Most Popular Course Is Humanities 2

Humanities 2 boasts a commanding lead over the rest of the College's courses in popularity, with an enrollment of 722 students. This figure may well represent the highest registration for a non-required course in the College's history.

According to preliminary figures released by Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28, students are enrolled for 724 courses this fall, compared to 707 last fall and 756 last spring.

Humanities 2, which deals with "The Epic and the Novel" and is given by John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, has 630 men and 92 Radcliffe students enrolled. Last year, it was third in popularity.

Actually, Gen. Ed. Ahf topped enrollment with 1,431 students--1,172 Harvard and 259 Radcliffe--but it is a required course.

Math IA follows Finley's course with 539 students, thus remaining in second place for the second consecutive year. Close behind are Economics 1, with 522, and Government 1B, with 496. Last year, Economics had climbed from seventh to fourth place, and how stands third; Government, now fourth, was sixth last year.

Humanities 4--in first place two years ago and tenth last year--is presently in fifth place with 479 students. The new Social Sciences course attracted 442 enrollees to notch sixth place.

A female enrollment of 147 enabled Music 1 to finish seventh with a total of 440 students. Last year it was eight. A surprising addition to the top ten is Fne Arts 13, whose heavy Radcliffe enrollment put it in eighth place. Of the 406 students registered, 146 are women.

Chem 1 Ninth

Chemistry 1 dropped from last year's fifth position to ninth, with 383 students. Nat. Sci. 3 rounds out the list of the top ten courses, with 375 students. Of these, 104 are women.

A total of 52 courses attracted at least 100 Harvard students. More than 70 courses has a combined Harvard-Radcliffe enrollment of 100.

Gen. Ed. courses led in popularity. Five of the top dozen and eleven of the top 35 courses were in the Gen. Ed. field Humanities 2 was first, Humanities 4 was fifth, Social Sciences 6 was sixth, and Natural Sciences 3 was tenth.

Social Sciences 1 was 12th, with 370 students; Social Sciences 3 was 21st, with 241 students; 25th was Humanities 3, with a total of 235 students; Nat. Sci. 6 was 27th with an even 200; Nat. Sci. 4 was 31st, with 189; Nat. Sci. 1 was 32nd, with 172; and Soc. Sci. 5 was 35th, with 155 students.

English 123--Shakespeare--stands 11th in popularity with 372 students. Twelfth is Soc. Sol. 1, while French Ca is 13th with a total enrollment of 356.

Bio. 1 Drops

Biology 1, seventh in 1952-53, dropped to 14th place with 333. The ever-popular Gov. 155a is 15th, with 331, while English 170a is 16th, attracting 292 students.

In 17th place is Social Relations 119, boasting an enrollment of 276 students. Physics 1a stands 18th with 273, Chemistry 2 is 19th with 256, and Chemistry 20 rounds out the list of the second top ten with a total of 247 students.

Government, History, and English courses fared quite well in popularity ratings. The Government Department has five courses among the top 50. In addition to 1B and 155a, there were Gov. 124, which finished 22nd with 239 students, Gov. 185, which finished 28th with 199 students, and Gov. 106a, which wound up 41st.

History Leaders

Tops among the History courses was 61a, in 26th place with 216 students. This was followed by History 142, which finished 38th, History 132a, in 40th place, History 169, in 43rd place: History 159b, in 48th place, and History 168a, in 49th place.

Three English courses finished within the top 25. English 123 and 170a were 11th and 16th, respectively. In 23rd place is English 10, with an enrollment of 237--144 Harvard and 93 Radcliffe.

Four upper-level Social Sciences courses--111, 112, 115, and 122--drew between 100 and 200 students apiece. Biggest of these was 111, "Far Eastern History," in 29th place with 195 students, while 112, "Human Relations," was right behind in 30th place with 190 students.

Radcliffe Enrollment

The course with the highest concentration of Radcliffe students is Music 1, with 147 females. Second most appealing to the women is Fine Arts 13, which features 146 of them. English 123 drew 138, while Humanities 4 has 117 Radcliffe women.

In fifth place is Nat Sci, 3, with 104 female students, and following that, in descending order, come English 10 with 93; Humanities 2 with 92; Soc. Sci, 1 with 91; Nat Sci. 6 with 70.