Word: bate
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Professor Walter Bate, formerly chairman of the Committee on History and Literature and now head of the English department, feels that the increased size of the tutorial staff is the main factor. As recently as 1947-48 there were only nine tutors; there are now twenty-nine. It is difficult for twenty-nine people to get around a table at the weekly tutorial luncheons to work out something of a common point-of-view...
These views on the trend of the literature departments are accepted by most history people and rejected by representatives of the English department. Bate feels that the explanation of History and Lit's difficulties is "far more complex" than Handlin would indicate. He points out that most of the courses offered by the English department are based on periods of time and that there are very few that are really unhistorical...
Louis Kronenberger, drama critic for Time Magazine, will teach two English courses and will live in Eliot House during the Spring term, Walter A. Bate '46, chairman of the Department of English, disclosed yesterday. Kronenberger was named the first Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of English in September...
Walter J. Bate, chairman of the English Department, estimates that one-third of those taking "200" conference courses are in the College--sophomores, as well as juniors and seniors. According to this year's figures, 37 per cent is the actual total. One reason for this large amount of undergraduates interested in advanced English courses is the constant flux in the department. Every year is an off-year for a number of classes; usually, it seems, those helpful on general examinations. In American literature especially, those who miss the middle group course go right into the "200" section. Moreover...
...hard-working graduate may be pedantic and methodical by necessity. Concurrently, the undergraduates in a particular conference course may provide stimulation and enthusiasm--they are less hampered in their approach. Bate suggests that this antithesis--routine vs. creativity--may be intensified in conference courses because they are attended by the brightest undergraduates, but not the highest-ranking of the graduates The latter will "bop up" into the solely graduate seminars. Gilmore feels that the graduate may be "drier" because his aims are more professional, his exams more searching, his work more exacting...