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Nearly 600 students have decided to take the survey of English literature, which is being given for the first time in many years. The course's planners, however, had only expected from 200 to 250 students, and the high number came as a complete surprise, according to Larry D. Benson, head tutor in the course...
...Benson has already added as many section men as the Department would allow, but there weren't enough to go around, he reported. The section-less seniors, however, can drop the course at midyears...
...Benson attributed the influx to the backlog of students who have never been able to take a general survey course in English literature. As a result, he expects a big drop in the course's enrollment next year...
...Harry D. Benson, assistant professor English, will become the Senior Tutor of Quincy House on January 1. Last year he was the head tutor of the English department...
Biologist Benson Ginsburg bites wolves. Not that the University of Chicago professor gets a special kick from his odd occupation; his dangerous pastime is part of a serious scientific effort to discover if wildness can be bred out of wild animals. Starting with wild mice, he has worked up through coyotes to wolves, which are notoriously hard to gentle. Today, in laboratory pens, or loping around a one-acre enclosure at the Chicago Zoo, are five golden-eyed monsters that Dr. Ginsburg has raised from fuzzy pups. They are strong enough to kill a moose, but they play with...