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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...
...making the award, Phi Beta Kappa called Bate's Book "a thoroughly disciplined study." "A freshness of approach to what we already knew," it continued, "make the whole read like a tale newly told. Nothing is trivial, nothing extraneous...
...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...