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Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch, the department's chair, said the department supported the change because "the impression is that a lot of people write theses who are not motivated to do so because they just want honors. It's not as productive for them as it might have been just taking courses...
Other faculty and administrators agreed with Damrosch but added that elimination of the thesis requirement makes sense only if replaced with other "capstone experiences...
Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch, the department's chair, said the department supported the change because "the impression is that a lot of people write these who are not motivated to do so because they just want honors...
...Damrosch noted that Guillary, a graduate student at Yale during the "great days" of its English department in the '70s, was in his mid-40s--unusually young for a senior Faculty member...
...trying to get younger people than the standard full professor. Because the Harvard tenure process is so difficult, the people in their 40s who should be the backbone of the department aren't here," Damrosch said, noting that tenured Faculty were usually accepted in their 50s. "Guillary can help bridge that...