Word: bated
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Mere prattle without practice, say the incensed Stratfordians, who form the vast mainstream. "The idea that you have to go to Oxford to be a great writer is snobbish," says Jonathan Bate, author of The Genius of Shakespeare. Bate points out that Shakespeare, as the son of a local merchant and town official, would almost certainly have attended the Stratford Free School. And Elizabethan grammar schools offered a formidable education in Latin, including oratory and letter writing in the style of characters from classical myth and history. Students also had to be able to expand and embellish on existing literary...
Matthew C. Bate, a first-year Law School student, says the social aspect h as made his experience much more enjoyable. "There's a camaraderie that you don't get in an apartment," he says...
...student's price range," says Bate, who lives in a fourth-floor suite. "Of all the Law School dorms, this is one of the most comfortable...
...townhouse-style Hastings is also one of the most convenient dorms with its proximity to Langdell Library and classrooms. Bate says the hall is one of the most popular and students get rooms there largely by luck of the lottery...
Harvard waited too long to respond contemporary changes; no younger faculty of Bloom's age came remotely near the education and superb scholarship of Douglas Bush, Harry Levin and Walter Jackson Bate, Luminaries of Harvard's recent past. The English department nearly went into receivership. Ten years after I entered grad school, Harvard's reputation in literature hit rock bottom...