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This course, primarily for graduates, is to be given during the next half-year for the first time. It will be based on the theory of relative frequency, already developed by Dr. Zipf in studies appearing in 1929 and in the spring of this year, but not previously made the object of a course. Discussion will not be limited to philological changes, for the formula, Frequency times Intensity is Constant, can be applied not merely to language but to all changes in the manner of human expression, and is, in the view of its author, the significant basis of such...
...Wordsworth and Coleridge were very different, not only the men themselves, but the circumstances of the composition of their principal critical works," said T. S. Eliot '10, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, yesterday evening, in the last of his lectures during this half-year. Eliot spoke on "The Theories of Coleridge and Wordsworth," in the fourth of a series entitled, "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism...
...benefit of members of the Freshman class who have been inquiring at the CRIMSON building about competitions for the Class of 1936, the CRIMSON does not hold any competitions during the first half-year for Freshmen...
...graduate study ought primarily to be a training in independent research, since the scholar's aim is not merely to master the present body of knowledge, but to increase it. Ideally, many courses, now open to graduates ought to exclude them, since such courses frequently take a year or half-year to dole out information which the student himself could assimilate in a fraction of that time. (History courses are notorious offenders in this respect.) At the worst, such courses ought to direct the graduate to fruitful subjects of original research; these are frequently remote from the main body...
During the second half-year, Professor Eliot will give a course in modern English Literature, called English 26, which will deal with British work from about 1890 to the present time...