Humanities 2 boasts a commanding lead over the rest of the College's courses in popularity, with an enrollment of 722 students. This figure may well represent the highest registration for a non-required course in the College's history.

According to preliminary figures released by Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28, students are enrolled for 724 courses this fall, compared to 707 last fall and 756 last spring.

Humanities 2, which deals with "The Epic and the Novel" and is given by John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, has 630 men and 92 Radcliffe students enrolled. Last year, it was third in popularity.

Actually, Gen. Ed. Ahf topped enrollment with 1,431 students--1,172 Harvard and 259 Radcliffe--but it is a required course.

Math IA follows Finley's course with 539 students, thus remaining in second place for the second consecutive year. Close behind are Economics 1, with 522, and Government 1B, with 496. Last year, Economics had climbed from seventh to fourth place, and how stands third; Government, now fourth, was sixth last year.

Humanities 4--in first place two years ago and tenth last year--is presently in fifth place with 479 students. The new Social Sciences course attracted 442 enrollees to notch sixth place.

A female enrollment of 147 enabled Music 1 to finish seventh with a total of 440 students. Last year it was eight. A surprising addition to the top ten is Fne Arts 13, whose heavy Radcliffe enrollment put it in eighth place. Of the 406 students registered, 146 are women.

Chem 1 Ninth

Chemistry 1 dropped from last year's fifth position to ninth, with 383 students. Nat. Sci. 3 rounds out the list of the top ten courses, with 375 students. Of these, 104 are women.

A total of 52 courses attracted at least 100 Harvard students. More than 70 courses has a combined Harvard-Radcliffe enrollment of 100.

Gen. Ed. courses led in popularity. Five of the top dozen and eleven of the top 35 courses were in the Gen. Ed. field Humanities 2 was first, Humanities 4 was fifth, Social Sciences 6 was sixth, and Natural Sciences 3 was tenth.

Social Sciences 1 was 12th, with 370 students; Social Sciences 3 was 21st, with 241 students; 25th was Humanities 3, with a total of 235 students; Nat. Sci. 6 was 27th with an even 200; Nat. Sci. 4 was 31st, with 189; Nat. Sci. 1 was 32nd, with 172; and Soc. Sci. 5 was 35th, with 155 students.

English 123--Shakespeare--stands 11th in popularity with 372 students. Twelfth is Soc. Sol. 1, while French Ca is 13th with a total enrollment of 356.

Bio. 1 Drops

Biology 1, seventh in 1952-53, dropped to 14th place with 333. The ever-popular Gov. 155a is 15th, with 331, while English 170a is 16th, attracting 292 students.