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...potential drawback to the Harvard, Radcliffe GSAS merger evaporated yesterday as W. J. Bate '39, chairman of English Department, stated that difficulties in deciding between equally qualified male and female applicants for admission or scholarships are surmountable...
...Bate emphasized that his department, largest in the University, must process about 530 admissions applications year, of which a full third are from girls. No other discipline attracts this many women for graduate study...
...Bate said that students are neglecting the period surveys, choosing instead isolated studies of special topics. He pointed out that the Department might have to alter its concentration regulations to offset this neglect...
...reinstating English 10, the Department's formal introductory course, Bate hopes to expose students to a variety of literary periods, as well as to perhaps a dozen different professors. At present, he said, because upperclassmen have had no historical introduction to the field, many do not even know which authors a course like English 130b--"English Literature from the Restoration to 1700"--would cover. He felt this was one reason students neglected such courses...
Students used to satisfy fully half of their concentration requirements with period surveys. Bate said, however, that the Department would rather not force this situation on undergraduates. He emphasized that "it only wishes that the choice of special topic courses be supplemental rather than a substitute" to the period surveys...