Word: bating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Keats' selection over 67 other entrants makes Bate the only person to have won the award twice. He received it in 1955 for The Achievement of Samuel Johnson...
Walter J. Bate '39, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, has won this year's Christian Gauss Award, for his book John Keats. Phi Beta Kappa presented the award to him at a dinner in Washington Friday...
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...
...Bate explained in 1961 that a non-credit honors tutorial might be aimed at those students capable of honors work but not well enough prepared in English literary history to dispense with a full schedule of departmental courses. This reasoning has evidently not influenced the present standards, because sophomore rank listing has nothing to do with preparation in English, either historical or critical. A sophomore's grade average may well cover three science courses and a Soc Sci. In any case, members of English 98 can take four departmental courses in addition to tutorial...
...Bate further proposed in 1961 that credit tutees carry a work load equivalent to that of two courses, and non-credit honors tutees carry a work load equivalent to that of only one course. This scheme has never become formal department policy. In practice, however, some tutors do assign less work and give less time to their non-credit tutees. The department has admitted that non-credit tutees can do honors work, and it requires no given amount of preparation in English before junior year. Students in non-credit honors tutorial, then, should receive the same degree of attention...