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SERVING THE CAUSE grounds of contemporary social problems through the major concepts, ideals, hopes, and motivations of western culture since the Middle Ages." The same source presented Lit. Found, as "an introduction to the ideas and forms of Western thought, presented through reading and interpretation of selected classics: Homer through St. Augustine and Dante through Goethe." With the support of Henry W.A. Hanson and his successors, sections of both courses averaged no more than twenty-five students. The 1950 catalogue listed fourteen instructors teaching the freshman course and eleven teaching the sophomore course. In 1965 the numbers listed were seventeen and seventeen. Over the years most of the C.C. instructors were drawn from the history, philosophy, and religion departments, although many others were represented for varying periods of time.146 Most of the Lit. Found, instructors were members of the language and literature departments. A few persons, beginning with Richard Arms, at one time or another offered both courses. Almost without exception, no one taught more than one section at a time. The staffs met regularly to discuss matters of content and method. At first the texts in the freshman course were four volumes published in 1946 and 1948 and used in a similar course which had been introduced at Columbia University in 1919. As early as November 1946 Professor Norman E. Richardson, who served as chairman of the C.C. course during the entire period it was required of all students, expressed the hope that the Gettysburg instructors would develop their own text, as the curriculum committee minutes express it, "in line with our own needs and our own point of view." This hope became a reality in the fall of 1955, when students in the course began using two volumes whose contents were written by C.C. instructors, two of whom served as editors, and which were produced on the Gettysburg campus.147 The texts used in the Lit. Found, course were modern editions of classical writers from Homer through Goethe. The success of a venture such as this depended largely upon the ability and commitment of those who were called upon to teach in it. It is indicative of the state of mind of the Gettysburg faculty in the early postwar years, when the student-faculty ratio was the highest in the history of the College, that the persons responsible for staffing 146The instructors listed in the 1955 catalogue represented nine departments: biology, education, German, history, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, and religion. Those listed in 1965 represented five: English, history, philosophy, political science, and religion. 147An Introduction to Contemporary Western Civilization and Its Problems was published in 1955 and 1956. A second edition, also of two volumes, Ideas and Institutions of Western Man, was published in 1958 and 1960. These materials were used into the mid-1960s. 86