History Dept Will Try to Get More Visiting Lecturers

The History Department revealed yesterday that it is trying to get more visiting lecturers for next year to give some of the courses whose regular lecturers will be on leave of absence.

Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the department, expressed the hope that fewer courses will have to be omitted in the future because of faculty sabbaticals. He cautioned, however, that the department still does not know how many visiting lecturers it can afford for next year.

Younger Substitutes

Gilmore also said that more junior faculty members may be allowed to give popular lecture courses in the absence of the regular professor. But the new lecturers will have to map the course themselves and not just read from the professor's notes, he added.

Complaints about this year's History curriculum have led to the plans for omitting fewer courses, Gilmore said. He expressed the hope that there would be no recurrence of this year's situation, when, because of the great number of faculty absences, only 13 of the Department's 23 undergraduate courses in Modern European History are being given.

Replaced Omissions

As popular courses for which visiting lecturers might be obtained next year, Gilmore listed his own History 130, History 134a, and History 169. This year's catalogue lists all these courses as being omitted in 1956-57.

The History Department has arranged for one visiting lecturer to teach at the College this year, Gilmore pointed out. He is Hary J. Carmen, retired Moore Professor of American History at Columbia, who will give History 61b this spring.