Word: cullers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...POETRY PUBLISHED NOW-A-DAYS IS OLD FASHIONED. The Advocate vacillated between innovation and a nervous caution. A reaction in the fifties against the poetic domination of Eliot was expressed by Peter Viereck in a parody of Prufrock: "Today the women come and go Talking of T.S. Eliot." Jonathan Culler, in his introduction to the Centennial Anthology, described a magazine that had "stayed Georgian ten years too late during the poetic ferment of the twenties"; the poets who found themselves at Harvard after the close of World War II, nearly thirty years later, had no patience with these traditions...
...small number of Harvard students are now testing the problem solving ability of the computer system. Glen Culler and his associates at Santa Barbara designed the system which a student can operate with one hour of instruction...
...Spring two new Harvard courses will test the feasibility of the system's use as a lecture aid. Ruyle himself will teach one of the new courses, a revised version of Math 20b. He hopes to use Culler's system to quickly compute graphical techniques used in solving differential equations...
...Intensest Rendezvous: George Herbert and the Problems of Religious Poetry" won third place and $150 for Jonathan D. Culler '66 of Kirkland House and Hamden, Conn...
...Culler's introduction hints that the anthology is a Curiosity, published for the intimate Harvard family. Most people wouldn't buy it if just any Joe were writing about "football at other colleges," but it's Theodore Roosevelt sizing up the Ivy League. Therefore, the book, a real cocktail party conversation piece, will end up on innumerable coffee tables. But it should be kept within the family. The outside world should never find out that Harvard College didn't teach its distinguished graduates everything they know. The Advocate Centennial Anthology ought only to be sold sub rosa during Commencement Week...