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...obvious questions after the Office of the Registrar released the list of the largest ten spring semester courses (actually 11 due to a tie) last week are ones like what makes a course like Humanities 9b, "Oral and Popular Literature," attract 667 people, twice as many as took it last year, or why did Natural Sciences 4, "Natural Selection and Behavioral Biology," lose 240 people from first semester? In short, what makes a course popular...
This year's replacement for last year's biggest spring gut, Humanities 103, "The Great Age of Athens," appears to be Hum 9b. Students cited minimal requirements and a reading list that includes science fiction and old ballads as reasons for the course's popularity. And Hum 9b also has the reputation of being an all-around good course...
This is a yearly diversion, like when Tom Rush gives his annual concert in Hum 9b. The United States Amateur Squash Championships, both individual and team, were held in Chicago this weekend, and while the Crimson racquetmen didn't make any headlines, what's more patriotic than spending Washington's birthday in Lincoln country...
...believes he is carrying the mantle of the great storytellers of all time, including himself among such epic figures as Homer, Vergil and Dante, as well as Bob Dylan, B.B. King, and John Coltrane. Albert B. Lord, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, and lecturer in Hum 9b, Oral and Popular Literature, calls Blue "sui-generis" though. Lord believes that Blue "does not really belong to any particular tradition in storytelling." He says that Blue relies on autobiographical material in an improvisational way. "As far as I know, Blue's stories are not those handed down among generations orally...
Matther Copel '79, who studied Blue's work carefully for a paper in Hum 9b last spring, finds two distinct types of stories in Blue's work: parodies of folk tales, like "Little Blue Riding Hood," and the autobiographical material, which Copel calls "totally oral." Copel doesn't believe Blue has ever memorized any of his autobiographical work, and Blue himself denies even writing it down. "I never do a work the same way twice. I try to work like a jazz musician, blowing an old song from my soul, but blowing it ever new," he says. Blue sees...