Ec 1 Remains Most Popular Course As 775 Students Crowd Lowell Lec

For the fourth year in a row, money is the most popular subject of study in the University. An enrollment of 775--76 more than last year--has made Economics 1 far-and-away the largest non-compulsory course at Harvard.

The only surprise in figures released this week by Sargent Kennedy '28, registrar, is the spectacular drop in enrollment suffered by History 134a, the Intellectual History of Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, taught by Crane Brinton '19, professor of History.

After an article in Time listed the course as a sort of blue-chip gut, enrollment last fall soared to a fifth-place 417. But Brinton then announced that his course would no longer be easy, and this year the bottom fell out of the market, plunging the course out of sight below the 25th place mark.

Soc Sci 4 Drops

The popularity of Social Science 4 also dropped off considerably, from a third-place ranking last year to 19th place this fall. Volume in second-place Humanities 2 was slashed considerably (from 690 last year to 469) by newly-imposed enrollment limitations.

The next most popular courses after Ec 1 and Hum 2 were generally steady to higher: Math 1a, 461; Soc Sci 1, 456; Gov la, 421; Nat Sci 5, 390; Hum 5, 384; English 10, 357; Fine Arts 13, 340; and Gov 124, 330.

Noon Glut Eased

Kennedy also reported a slight easing of the glut of popular courses meeting Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at noon. One of the largest, English 123, is not being offered this year, and another, Gov 124, was moved to a different hour.

In addition, elementary courses under the Department of Romance Languages are for the first time being offered at 8 o'clock.

Despite enrollment shifts due to limiting admission to many lower level General Education courses, Kennedy reported there have been relatively few changes this year. However, in an effort to cut down class sizes, auditors have been banned from Fine Arts 13 and elementary Romance language courses.