Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author of The Harvest and the Scythe, a book of poetry published last year, he will talk with members of the House in the dining hall and in the Junior Common Room. He is the guest of Louis Kampf, a Junior Fellow living in the House...
Robert Adams, professor of English at the University of Washington, will present the case tonight for the English humanists' attack on medieval romance in a lecture entitled "Bold Bawdry and Open Manslaughter." He will speak in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room at 7:30 p.m. The talk is open to the public...
...increased size of the tutorial staff is the main factor. As recently as 1947-48 there were only nine tutors; there are now twenty-nine. It is difficult for twenty-nine people to get around a table at the weekly tutorial luncheons to work out something of a common point-of-view...
Before the Second World War, he says, there was a "common point-of-view" in both the history and the literature departments. A potentiality for synthesis" existed; and this, according to Handlin, was the reason why the field was successful. Since the War, he argues, that common point-of-view has been lacking; the literature and history departments have moved away from each other and from the ideal of History and Lit. The dominant recent trend in the literature departments, he says, is non-historical. "This may be all to the good," he adds, "but it does undermine History...
...similar decision, members of Kirkland House recently expressed interest in a proposal to extend Friday night parietal hours to 10 p.m. in the Junior Common Room...