The Dope

Education on a help-yourself, if-you don't-see-it-ask-for-it basis has come to Harvard, a head-scratching officialdom at the university realized today as it wondered what to do with 350 students who demand instruction in a course in which provision for only 275 students has been made.

Cause of the confusion which is reigning in large quantities in the Yard is the Harvard CRIMSON's "confidential" guide to courses, a dope sheet distributed gratis the other day to the incoming Freshmen, telling them at just what counters in Harvard's pedagogical department store the best bargains are to be obtained. Neophytes were advised to "Stop" some courses, "Caution" on others, and "Go" on the rest, and were supplied as well with candid critiques.

Approximate course enrolment figures obtained today by the Transcript disclose that more than 350 students rushed to the elementary geology course given by Professor Kirtley F. Mather, where hitherto provision has been made for a maximum of 275 students. Professor Mather's course was praised in CRIMSON guide in several places and was generally pointed out as a model course.

Government 1, previously one of the favorites on the Freshman schedule, did not fare so well in the hands of the CRIMSON commentators, and Freshmen to the number of several hundred have avoided it, leaving, it is understood, an embarrassed Government department wondering what to do with the several score of assistant instructors appointed to handle the usual influx of students.

English 28, the famed English literature "vaudeville" course in which Professors George Lyman Kittredge and John Livingston Lowes are among the headliners, was given a slight edge in the guide over English 79, a similar course. English 79 supervisors accordingly noticed an unusually small turnout when the course held its first meeting yesterday.

Philosophy B. headed by Professor W. E. Hocking, was on the CRIMSON's preferred list and filled a lecture hall to overflowing yesterday, while its competitor, Philosophy A, had difficulty in filling the same room.

All this is being watched with great interest by members of the CRIMSON board, who are basking in the safety of official sanction of the "confidential guide." The dean of Freshmen, it seems, wrote the introduction to the pamphlet.

The Boston Evening Transcript.

(Ed. Note. The Transcript erred in its complimentary report of the CRIMSON's Confidential Guide in saying that Government 1 fell off several hundred, for the latest figures reveal that the course only dropped eleven men. English 28 has been revised and is no longer a "vaudeville" course, now being in charge solely of James B. Munn, professor of English, a fact which may account partially for the increase of 110, as compared to a decrease of 102 for English 79.

Philosophy B has been revised and is now open to Freshmen, which undoubtedly is responsible for its tremendous increase.) --The Boston Evening Transcript.