Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning exercises will include three speeches by students. Sabin Willett '79 will deliver the Latin oration, Patty Woo '79 will deliver the undergraduate English oration and Paul K. Rowe '76, will deliver the graduate English oration...
...time for the Faculty to demand some minimum standard of involvement, and they settled on legislation which required Faculty members to teach at least 30 per cent of a department's tutorials. However, a 1976-77 CUE study of tutorial programs in five of Harvard's largest departments--History, English, Economics, Government, and Psychology and Social Relations--revealed that none of these departments ever complied with the requirement. The worst offender--the History Department--had graduate students teaching 91 per cent of its tutorials. No Faculty members taught sophomore tutorials in English, History and Psychology and Social Relations, although...
Elizabeth McKinsey, head tutor in the English Department, plans to take a similar approach. She also says she will "invite" her colleagues to teach tutorials next year, but cannot predict how many professors will actually come forward. The English Department will not offer any special seminars next year, even though Bowersock's reforms mandate that all students who take tutorials "shall have the option in one term of their sophomore or junior year" to take a special professor-run seminar. McKinsey states simply, "We don't feel we need...
...first-rate comic art, the funnier the surfaces the sadder the depths. Nowhere is that clearer than in the novels and short stories of Stanley Elkin, whose improvisations on the American way and the English language make him our foremost literary jazz band. His most exuberant characters-a department store owner, a bail bondsman, an itinerant radio announcer-combine the energy and appetites of the Middle West with the legendary qualities of Sholom Aleichem's villagers. Elkin makes much joyful noise unto the Lord, but there is also banter to deflect the wrath, and complaining because it might...
...wines and why solos were more acceptable to Him than duets. He told them the secret causes of inflation - 'It's the markup,' He said - and which was the best color and how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. He explained why English was the first language at Miss Universe pageants and recited highlights from the eighteen-minute...