Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan cab driver and a Chicago barber each heard the knock of opportunity; but only one responded...
Prominent in the memories of English and History and Lit concentrators before the war were three men: C.L. Barber, Mark Schorer, and Wallace Stegner. None of them remain. To raise the issue of the why's and wherefore's of Wallace Stegner's disappearance is to raise the shade of one of the oldest and heariest problems in the Department's history, the issue of whether or not creative artists have a rightful place on the Faculty. Stegner occupied, while he was here, one of the Briggs-Copeland instructor must go elsewhere after his appointment is completed. As a result...
Both as teachers and scholars, Barber and Schorer stood in the best tradition of the English Department. But because, for one reason and another, both of them refused to disgorge the prescribed number of published pages by the prescribed date, they have gone elsewhere, leaving an unfilled gap in the Department behind them. The enthusiastic reception of Schorer's book on William Blake, published subsequent to his departure from Harvard, is evidence of the fallaciousness of the University's insistence on published research as the dominant criterion of its Faculty appointments...
Typical of the serious lacks which exist in the Department partly as a result of the absence of young men of the calibre of Schorer and Barber is the situation in the field of American literature. Above the basic introductory course, English 7, exactly two undergraduate courses in the field have been offered this fall: one on the local color movement and the other on American fiction since 1890. Both are specialized in the extreme and neither is concerned with the central focus of American literature, the middle span of the nineteenth century. And to pile Ossa on Pelion...
...young teachers like Barber and Schorer had been replaced by men of equal talent the returning concentrator's disappointment would have been only temporary, but the hard, cold fact is that not only are such men in a sense irreplaceable, but the current "teachers' market" has sharply increased the competition for competent young instructors. Thus it is that the University's prodigal policy as regards its instructors--requiring them to meet a "produce or-else" deadline, undervaluing their qualifications as teachers--has come home to roost, plaguing the English Department with a shortage of good teachers at the very time...