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Walter Jackson Bate, director of undergraduate studies in English, justified the exclusive honors program as recognizing outstanding achievement during sophomore and junior years and providing an incentive to work hard. It is doubtful, however, whether the members of English 98 take much pride in the fact that some of their fellow tutees are not receiving credit and that others are out of the running for honors. And even if dangling a carrot were a respectable means of encouraging scholarly achievement, what the English Department is dangling looks more like the Sword of Damocles. Rather than encouraging the sophomore...
Among the pillars of Exam Group XII is English 70, a popular tour of American literature conducted this term by Alan Heimert. Elsewhere in the English Department Walter Jackson Bate illuminates the "Function and Criticism of Literature" in English 192, and scads of undergrads submit to the spell of John Finley's epic oratory in Hum 2. Universalists must choose between Merle Fainsod's treatment of Soviet Dictatorship in Government' 115 and the "Principles of Ecology" studied in Biology 143; the undecided settle on Iranian 175, "the Culture of Ancient Iran." Scientists delve into Geology 271a, "Mining Geology," or aspire...
...reprints are being supervised by Walter Jackson Bate '39, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, and Herschel Baker, professor of English...
Walter Jackson Bate, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, won the Bowdoin Prize in 1939 for an essay on Keats's conception of the poetical character which later grew into a full biography of Keats that won the Pulitzer Prize this year. Robert Lowell, who has won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is also a member of the class...
...Corporation singled out from the 25th Reunion Class? Possibly Leonard Bernstein. And far more possibly Walter Jackson Bate (an LL.D from Harvard outshines even a Pulitzer...