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Three cheers and a rousing hooray! for TIME'S Dec. 26 story on Professor Frank C. Baxter of the University of Southern California. As my adviser during my student days at the university, Dr. Baxter taught me to have faith - not only in the lasting quality of literature as a cultural influence, but also in the very real experience for self-cultivation that literature...
...salesman, Frank Baxter did not start out to be a teacher at all. He began as a waterboy in Philadelphia's Hammerstein opera house (he carried glasses of water to singers in the wings), later became a clerk and bookkeeper for a manufacturing company...
Glasses of Water. Whatever he read, his audience loved it. For that matter, students approved most everything Frank Baxter did, in or out of his Shakespeare class. "If you haven't taken a course from Dr. Baxter," the daily Trojan last week declared, "you haven't been to college." U.S.C. students had voted him the man "who should teach all the classes in the university...
...Overtones. It was not to be a scholar. "I'm just a schoolmaster," Baxter would say. He was also, he would add, "the last of the sentimentalists." To him literature was more than facts and footnotes: "It is all overtones. History is clear cut. Geography stays put. But poetry-that's so different...
Today, at 53, Baxter gets embarrassed when students speak of him as their favorite professor. "I don't want them to be aware of me," he insists. "It's the subject they're learning, not the professor." Keeping them unaware of their professor was one of few things in which he had failed. Like Shakespeare, Frank Baxter was one of the experiences at U.S.C...