Word: bate
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...sweeping revision of its concentration program, the English Department has abolished the English 10 course and the tutorial bibliography, Department chairman Walter J. Bate '39 disclosed yesterday...
Instead of English 10, which will pass out of existence this spring, the Department will accept a lower level Humanities course as "the proper avenue to concentration in English," Bate said...
Although these changes represent "a stiffening of requirements," they also provide for a "less mechanical" approach, Bate explained. At the present time, concentrators were required to take courses which would prepare them to answer Generals questions on individual periods of English literature, and these exams have frequently been tied to specific courses...
...Bate Approves...
Walter J. Bate '39, chairman of the English Department, said that probably any future "writers in residence" would officially be guests of the Houses, with the "blessing" of the English Department. "They would want to meet students, not teach classes," he said...