Word: doren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Mark Van Doren delivered his first lecture at Harvard last February a capacity crowd jammed the hall. They filled every seat, every inch of floor space, window ledge and platform until the man at the lectern was practically engulfed Looking somewhat bewildered by the crush of humanity Van Doren stood quietly, hand touched lightly to his chin in a characteristic gesture...
Almost four hundred students signed up the next week for Humanities 119--The Narrative Art--a course Van Doren devised in his last years at Columbia. Some say it is the best course they've ever taken, others that it is the loudest of the roaring guts. Whatever the consensus, the style and content of the course tell a great deal about this man who taught at Morningside Heights for almost 40 years and published close to 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, and criticism...
Visiting professors Robert Lowell and Mark Van Doren will judge a literary contest sponsored by the Harvard Advocate for undergraduates who have not previously published in the magazine...
Lowell, who will evaluate the poetry entries, teaches English Sa, Advanced Writing, and English 285, The Craft of Poetry. Van Doren, on leave from Columbia University, will judge the prose pieces. His courses here are English Sb, Advanced Writing, and Humanities 119, The Narrative...
...half-course offered for the first time this spring, Hum 119 was originally scheduled to meet in Harvard 1. After the first meeting it was rescheduled for Sanders Theatre, where Van Doren now lectures twice weekly to 900 students...