Word: bating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English department has been criticized in the past for its lack of courses. In view of the interest in fiction, however, "we are going to give more attention to the situation than we were able to last year or the year before," reports Walter J. Bate, chairman of the department. In a move to expand this year, the department has revived English 181, Narration in the English Novel, to be given in the spring...
...other course beckons at this barely civilized hour: Professor W. J. Bate's ambitious survey of the history of English literary criticism from then till now (Eng. 192). Bate, the only man on the Faculty who can make Samuel Johnson come to life, gives lectures that are a model of magnificence, and cannot be too highly recommended...
...Faculty's decision of this February to modify the distinction between Honors and non-Honors concentration allowed the Department to reinstate its old policy, which according to Bate had been considered "successful...
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...
Withdrawing credit from junior tutorial will not change the work load on concentrators, Bate declared. He said that the Department had envisioned credit tutorial as a two-course work load, but would expect only single-course reading from non-credit groups...