Word: bercovitch
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...defiantly American institution despite its many Oxbridge influences, Harvard is not only part of the lawn-lovin' American Dream, it helps shape it. Emerson's American Scholar address (given in the Yard, perhaps?) and his otheR writings helped define the Dream in its inception. Today, Bercovitch's course The Myth of America analyzes where the Dream went thereafter. The grass is in there somewhere (see Walt Whitman's book of poems,"Leaves of Grass...
...past two years, the only two English professors who focus on the colonial period--Cabot Professor of American Literature Alan E. Heimert '49 and Carswell Professor of English Sacvan Bercovitch--have taken leaves of absence for medical reasons, leaving their courses untaught and students scrambling...
Joseph Goodwin '00, a history and literature concentrator, says he is impressed with the way the English Department has reacted to Bercovitch's absence this spring, in particular...
Goodwin says although he knows some students were counting on taking Bercovitch's course, they understand the unavoidable and unexpected nature of his absence...
...should have left for retirement years ago," he says, "and Bercovitch will be up for retirement in four or five years. What is the University doing to find a tenured replacement in the area of colonial literature...