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Hanham and Hanna both studied in New Zealand--at Aukland University and the University of New Zealand, respectively--but they received their doctorates at English universities--Cambridge and the University of London...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Zealanders Added to Faculty, Ford Announces | 1/31/1968 | See Source »

Joel M. Porte, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Quincy House, has been named associate professor of English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Porte Gets Tenure | 1/29/1968 | See Source »

...than the abbreviated, handy-dandy "study guide" to the works of great writers. Teachers complained that students unblushingly used these ponies, or trots, to pass a course without reading the assigned novels and plays - and often without bothering to attend class either. Only two years ago, Purdue's English Professor Maurice Beebe insisted: "I wouldn't allow my students to use a study guide to Judgment Day written by St. Peter himself." Since then, Beebe has written two trots, and dozens of other top scholars are now turning them out. Their reasoning seems to be that if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Professors: Riding the Ponies | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

This turnabout in attitude stems from the ubiquity of the guides. "When I was in college, you had to hide in the toilet to read those things," recalls Jane Ferrar, wife of a Columbia English instructor, and a freelance writer of trots under the nom de plume of Jane Wexford. But students now carry them everywhere, college bookstores display them, and 15 million are sold annually. "As long as students will use study guides," argues Beebe now, "we may as well do our best to make sure that they are using good guides that are carefully prepared, accurate and thorough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Professors: Riding the Ponies | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

This course is to be patterned on the fourteen week specific discipline described in Omar Garrison's English translation of the Tantric learnings. Prerequisites for participation: adequate mastery of the Hatha Yoga physical positions and diaphragmatic breathing, purchase of the text, and an insouciant attitude toward group nudity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Semester That Might Have Been... | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

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