Fearful Engineering Concentrators Get Solace from New Department

With the "Final Announcement of Courses during 1945-46" just one day old, two departments have announced that adjustments will be made in their offerings in line with requests from undergraduates in the fields.

The new Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, swamped yesterday by queries from students concentrating in the old field of Engineering Sciences, recommended that all such men continue to list their courses along the plans they had originally laid down.

Many Courses Unlisted

Anxiety on the part of Engineering Sciences concentrators was the result of a cursory glance at the new catalogue, which lists only 3 undergraduate courses in "Applied Science" instead of the 13 or 14 as in former years. Dropped from the list are such classes as Engin Sci. 1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16.

Albert Haertlein '16, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering and Acting Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, declared that undergraduates now concentrating in Engineering Sciences should indicate on their study cards courses they wish to take during the fall term and whether they are listed in the catalogue or not. The Engineering Faculty will offer undergraduate courses according to the demand in order to "taper off" the effects of the departmental shift, he said.

The purpose of the new departmental structure, Professor Haertlein said, is two-fold: to combine under one faculty for undergraduates and graduates all electric's and communication engineering, formerly under a combination of Arts and Sciences and Engineering Faculties; and to discourage specialization below the graduate level by students interested in all kinds of engineering.

English 23 To Be Unchanged

After an informal poll of students in the class meeting of English 23b yesterday morning. Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, indicated that the present arrangement of the course-into Shakespearian tragedies and comedies-would be continued next year. This will supplant the list in the new catalogue, which is a return to the pre-1945 division into early and late plays.