GOVERNMENT MEN WILL LECTURE FOR STUDENTS IN 1935

In line with the trend away from the course system placing more stress on the general examinations and tutorial work the Department of Government has announced a series of lectures on current problems of government to be given next year without credit by some of the younger members of the department. The lectures are primarily for the undergraduates in the field and designed to fit in with tutorial work and preparation for the general examinations. Although they will not be required it is believed they will be extremely helpful in preparing work in the modern fields.

Although no complete list of the lectures is yet available, it is known that the following instructors in the field will take part: Edward P. Herring, will deliver the series on "Business and the Federal Bureaucracy," Payson S. Wild on "Topics in the History of International Law"; Albert E. Hindmarsh, on "The Japanese Foreign Policy"; Wolfgang Kraus on "The Post War Political Structure of Germany", and Mario L. Einaudi on "Italian Political Thought and Institutions."

Influential members of the Department are understood to feel that without substantial course reduction in the field to accompany them, the new lectures will constitute a "fifth wheel" in the regular curriculum, and the men are known accordingly to favor a reduction of the regular course requirements, at least in Government, to a maximum of eight or ten units in the regular four-year course.

One of the principal reasons for instituting the series is to provide opportunities for many of the younger members of the department for whom there are no courses to deliver lectures on the special fields within which they have been working. At present it is impossible to provide courses for these men and the lectures have been regarded as convenient stepping stones for more advanced places in the department.