Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, of course, was that non-concentrators found it difficult if not impossible to get into the course, and the responsibility for this situation is conspicuously the English Department's, and not Professor Brower's. But justice demands that the use of English concentration as a criterion for admission should cease, whether or not it will cause some slight damage to those English students who are excluded...
...English Department's use of Hum 6 is a combination of convenience (for it is thus unnecessary to give courses in criticism for potential concentrators) and salesmanship, since English is a more attractive major when one does not have to "waste" a year on General Education. In reality, however, this policy perverts the fundamental philosophy of General Education and works considerable hardships on non-concentrators...
...pressure), or the Department should stop encouraging students to take Hum 6, or a similar course, required of concentrators, should be created within the department. In any case, Professor Brower should stop giving concentrators special treatment. Only by such action will he be able to force members of the English department to recognize that the General Education program was not created for their own convenience...
Some chaps insist on speaking English before 10 o'clock coffee; for them there is still much to do. Philhellenics (there are many) can meet at Harvard 1 to hear Professor Wade-Gery's views on the Greek Renaissance and Archaic Greek, History 106. And next door in Harvard 3, Professor Pipes pre-dates the "We will bury you" era with History 155, Russia to the end of the Eighteenth Century...
Some places, people dine at noon; in Cambridge, it is the hour of decision. In this case, one man's steak is another man's roast beef. Arthur Schlesinger's History 169 (Room 18, 2 Divinity Avenue, Harry Levin's English 126 (Harvard 4), and Perry Miller's Hum 111 (Sever 18) are the competing extravaganzas...