Word: bate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walter J. Bate '39, Chairman of the Department, explained that the number of Honors theses submitted has jumped from around 75 to 105 in a single year, "creating some pressure on our graders." In addition, whereas undergraduates tend to prefer the modern period, many teaching fellows specialize on "earlier, more traditional writers...
...turn of the century, Professor Bliss Perry referred to the department in quoting the words an old lady had once spoken in reference to a lecture of Emerson's. "It had no connection," she said, "save in God." And Chairman Bate today adds, "Perhaps our frail, earthly unity is also provided by this strange, old building...
...institution and its home have mingled. To blaspheme the place is common practice on the part of those who adore it. Some refer to it as the "out house." But let anyone suggest changing quarters and a department of disparate factions will respond as one. As Professor Bate puts it, "It would seem like sacrilege...
Brower, probably the chief spokesman at Harvard for the so-called "New Criticism" seconds Bate's point and adds that in general the adherents of a non-historical approach are "on the defensive" in the Harvard English department. Brower regards his approach to literature--"to have as full an experience as possible without thinking of time and place"--as one step away from History and Lit in order to move two steps closer...
...Professor of History and Literature, but Miller went into the English department and is now able to give very little time to History and Lit, his "first love." Work by senior faculty members in History and Lit is, incidently, unpaid ("purely a labor of love," says Professor Bate...