History and Science

This, another field for honors candidates only, is excellent for men who like science don't want to take just advanced science courses; pre-meds, future science teachers in secondary schools, and ROTC men. The field is limited to twelve men.

To major in this department a student must have taken two years of laboratory sciences in secondary school. At least nine courses are required--four in History and five in Science and Mathematics and not more than two of these on the freshmen level. I. Bernard Cohen's History of Science may be substituted for one of these nine courses.

Cohen and C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, meet students about once a month during sophomore and junior years; in the senior year the student is assigned a tutor in History.

Complaints generally hit the lack of tutorial in the junior year necessitating the usual thesis grind near the end of the senior year. Also students feel that there is a definite lack of synthesis between History and Science--many fail to see any correlation between American History and Mathematics. The requirement is usually fulfilled by writing on a historical subject--again a lack of synthesis.