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Explaining the change, W. J. Bate '39, chairman of the Department, pointed out that tutorial credit reduces the number of regular English courses which students have to take. Because the Department already allows undergraduates to count an exceptional number of courses in other fields. Bate said that such a reduction leaves many students with too few English courses for the Department's general examinations...
...Bate and Perkins both denied that the English Department's tutorial-for-all program had had any effect on the number of courses given. Perkins said that most tutorial work was done by the junior Faculty, and the senior members undertook tutorial in addition to, not in place of, teaching duties...
Bagte also indicated that the recent CEP proposal, at first opposed by the English Department because it would curtail the Department's unique tutorial program, will be re-worded to allow more flexibility of approach. "We may be increasing tutorial for people not in Honors," Bate said...
Several factors contributed to the Department's small course list this spring, Bate said. Only two assistant professors are on the Department's staff this year, compared to the usual four or five. Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, is heading two half-courses instead of his usual four because of his work in Humanities 143, and three other men dropped a half course each to teach a Freshman Seminar...
...next year Bate pointed out the return of theatre and novel courses--not ably English 160, "Drama since Ibsen;" English 151, "The 19th-Century English Novel;" and English 181, "Narration in the Novel." Edgar Rosenburg, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, has been named to teach English...