Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teaching Fellows in the English Department yesterday expressed "distress" at the way senior Honors theses were distributed to Faculty readers. "It is unfortunate," said one, "that theses on modern authors were given to tutors whose interest and competence lies in an earlier period."
Walter J. Bate '39, Chairman of the Department, explained that the number of Honors theses submitted has jumped from around 75 to 105 in a single year, "creating some pressure on our graders." In addition, whereas undergraduates tend to prefer the modern period, many teaching fellows specialize on "earlier, more...
Acknowledging the problem, John M. Bullitt '43, Head Tutor of the Department, pointed out that if any tutor is dissatisfied with a thesis grading assignment; he can either return it to the office, or trade with another tutor. Several teaching fellows said they had traded, to their mutual satisfaction.
The State Department is neither encouraging nor discouraging participation by American students in the Vienna Youth Festival, a Department official insisted last night. In yesterday's New York Times, there was a report that the Department was quietly supporting such participation.
"As a basis for the study of the history and literature of the U.S.S.R.," he said, "are the special libraries of the universities. In particular the enormous Russian department of Harvard University Library numbers hundreds of thousands of volumes." He seemed impressed by the fact that Widener contained "full sets...