Word: brower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Housemaster Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, is a subdued, modest man whose outward propriety obscures a vibrant originality. The casual visitor to his study or classroom is often initially disappointed by Brower's lack of flamboyancy, but after several visits invariably gets a good, long look into a sparkingly alive mind...
Many of his colleagues and students feel that Brower's dropping of his upper level courses this year in order to take on an elementary Humanities course and the myriad duties of a Housemaster is a great loss to the English department and the College. They think it rather strange that a man at the peak of his teaching career should choose this path...
...less surprising to me and my friends at Amherst that I'm doing this," Brower says. He feels the man here who best understood his motives was Eliot's John Finley, who wrote, "You now prove not to have lost Amherst for Harvard, but to have regained it, so to speak, within Harvard...
Having come from Amherst only a year ago, Brower thinks he is in large part plunging himself back into an atmosphere in which the teacher is concerned with the student's whole life. "I'm interested in this job for the same reason I'm interested in teaching. To me they're not at all competing interests, because I don't think of the academic side of a man as separated from the rest...
...Brower is intensely aware of the implications of what goes on in the classroom for the life of his students. "Without turning the classroom into a Sunday School, I think of a choice of poems as a choice of lives and, conversely, of any non-academic choice, such as that between two movies, as closely related to what happens in the classroom...