Word: browere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central Ohio (Columbus) Dec. 30 " " Dayton, Ohio Dec. 31 " " Rochester, N.Y. Dec. 26 Alex Bell Syracuse, N.Y. Dec. 28 " " Buffalo, N.Y. Dec. 29 " " Eastern New York (Albany) Dec. 30 " " San Diego, Cal. Dec. 17 Norman Shepard Chicago, Illinois Dec. 30 Prof. Franklin Ford Baltimore, Md. Dec. 29 Prof. Reuben Brower Kansas City, Kans. Dec. 23 (no speaker) Denver, Colo. Dec. 28 (no speaker) *dinner meeting rather than usual luncheon...
...unpublished poem by Ezra Pound will appear in the next issue of Gadfly, the University's sporadically-published magazine of "controversy and criticism." Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, has also contributed to the issue...
...Education in a Free Society--which was the foundation of the original General Education proposal is virtually a dead letter. Professor David E. Owen, ex-Chairman of the General Education Committee, admits, "One can hardly disguise the fact that there has been departure from the Redbook." Professor Reuben A. Brower, who teaches Humanities 6, puts the matter more strongly: "I remember how the Redbook was cited right and left six years ago, but nobody mentions it now.... Just by quietly not talking about the Redbook, a lot of good things get done...
Most conspicuous, Humanities 6, a course which Professor Brower admits is not General Education in the traditional sense, has taken on a singularly ambivalent character as both an English department course and General Education. It is the only sectioned introductory course, and the enrollment problem has become so difficult that English concentrators were given preference among sophomore applicants last year and this...
Even among many who would like to see the General Education requirement eliminated, there is feeling in favor of the program. Professor Brower, who feels that the job can be done by the departments if they are carefully supervised, says of the committee, "It has fulfilled a function that nothing else has fulfilled--someplace where people think about what is happening to the average undergraduate...