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Shouts of "source," "smut," and "time's up" filled the room as members of English N debated the resolution "Co-education with Radcliffe is a Pox on Harvard" in the course's eleventh heckling debate last night in Boylston Auditorium...
There are two heckling debates each term as part of the course work for English N, Irving J. Rein, lecturer in Public Speaking, said. He added that the debates give students a chance to respond to a live audience outside the classroom, "The emphasis is on humor--this is not a study thing," he added...
These lean, didactic, aphoristic statements, so varied in their language, seem to distill a universal wisdom. In the Samoan fishing culture, which is dependent on the canoe, islanders would have no difficulty in recognizing the kinship of the English proverb, "It never rains but it pours," to one of their own: "It leaks at the gunwale, it leaks in the keel." From the Biblical injunction, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," it is only a short and negotiable step to an old saying of the Nandi tribe in East Africa: "A goat's hide buys...
Real dispute may arise over the recommendation for abolishing grades. Most departments appear willing to change courses in a token gesture toward relaxing student-faculty relations, yet there is widespread support for the "C+ is still a plus better than C" theory. An English department study committee will probably recommend one new non-graded course for next year, but chairman Warren G. Bloomfield is typical in insisting that "customers who but our graduate students need a grade criterion to judge students that general criticisms don't provide...
...completely with his past. It was not known how many married men were among us, until the wife of almost everyone appeared on the scene during the last week in Venice. One man did greet his with unfeigned ardor. "Props" man was eager to return with her to his English home. Together, skillfully, painstakingly, they would pull up their floors, demolish the walls and the roof. Every year they made this house yield new halls and secret passageways, new skylights and new rooms. It was the best "set" of all, infinitely plastic to their desires...