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Thus six years separated Wolfe's work at Harvard and his emergence as a major writer. It is difficult to estimate the extent of the influence of the Harvard years on his later work; that there is a significant influence however is undeniable. The ideas found first in the Harvard plays and letters of the period, occur again and again in the great autobiographical novels. Though the eventual failure of Welcome to Our City produced a temporary disenchantment with the University and Professor Baker, Wolfe later acknowledged his debt to both. In the first draft of Of Time...
...itself, admirable, since the group's most valuable work is done in committee and through reports--many of which have been prepared by non-Council members. With a thirty or thirty-three member organization, the Council will have better informed individual members, even though debate may be difficult because of increased numbers...
...long as departments make reduction even for study within the field difficult, there is little hope of achieving the highest aims of the program. Moreover, there is no logic in departmental jurisdiction as it exists today. If a student fulfills the degree requirements within his own field, the department cannot forbid his taking any other subject offered by the College. Only in that his study card must be signed by his tutor should a student's electives be subject to departmental discretion. In this sense course reduction should be regarded as any elective...
...Crimson's editorial of October fourteenth is valuable for the light which it throws on the difficult situation of the 150-1b. crews. But it leaves the reader with a mistaken impression. The present confusion is not due to the HAA's "not seeing its way clear to end a clearly makeshift situation...
...ball deep into Amherst territory where they would be confronted by a formidable, three-man line of defense. Instead of trying to go around this line, they would try unsuccessfully to go through it. The result was that the Amherst goalie never had to handle a really difficult shot in the whole afternoon...