Word: comps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the bureaucratic obstinacy which so often characterizes the mechanics of Harvard's educational process, occasionally a new and sensible idea gropes its way to realization. One of these reassuring incidents is the decision to replace final examinations in English 163 and Comp Lit 166 with lengthy reading papers...
...undergraduate literature courses will require essays at the end of this term in place of final exams, the professors have told their respective classes. Comp Lit 166, taught by Albert J. Guerard, professor of English, and English 163, taught by Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, will break precedent by omitting exams this January...
...famed rigors of a CRIMSON competition will be somewhat mitigated by the impending Christmas recess, and by the fact that the Crime publishes only thrice weekly during exam period. And, of course, the winter comp is the CRIMSON'S traditional Christmas present to the Cambridge community...
...Comp. Lit. 166 suffered the largest drop, falling off 212 students below last year's total of 430. However enrollment in the course was limited for the first time this year...
English 7 does look at the major American names, and Howard Mumford Jones's course has a comprehensive syllabus. And there are American authors in Brower's modern poetry course, Chapman's 160 and Guerard's Comp. Lit. But the college just does not have solid coverage of the whole field of American literature. Except for Lynn's two conference-group half courses, there are no intensive studies of particular periods of American writing, and there is none at all of the dovetailing-dates historical blanketing of the subject that every British period is treated...