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"It's great when you beat the best," Keefe said. "I'm proud of what we've done." After the meet was over, some in the Harvard stands reacted with the oldest comeback in sports--it chanted "Eas-terns, Eas-terns," a not-so-subtle reference as to who will...
Since that time, Vogel said, a number of factors have created a growing overlap between the programs. New EALC faculty havew increasingly incorporated the techniques of the social sciences into their work, he said, and two EAS tutors have been hired as EALC head tutors.
If ratified at Tuesday's meeting, the combined department will begin operations next fall, according to Professor of Sociology Ezra F. Vogel, who chairs the EAS committee. The Faculty Council, which serves as the steering committee for the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences, voted unanimously to approve the plan...
Vogel explained that when the EAS committee was formed in 1972, EALC was geared toward early languages and literatures. Student interest in using the social sciences as an approach to study the area led to the creation of the separate EAS concentration, he said.
Vogel said that the new concentration will likely evolve as student interest shifts from one style of analysis to the other. Last year, 59 students concentrated in EALC, while 64 concentrated in EAS.