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Peter Blake: I went to law school, which just seemed like the typical refuge for a Hist. and Lit. major who didn’t want to go work for Goldman Sachs. Then I got to law school and I realized, “Oh my God, what am I doing?”...I took a couple of undergraduate creative writing classes and I persuaded this professor named James Vorenberg [’48]...to let me write my third-year paper...as a creative third-year paper. I sort of wrote a spec script...
...with pear and ricotta—don’t mind if I do! FM crashed the after party for the History and Literature Centennial Celebration, held last Saturday in Emerson Hall. Having observed panel discussions among 11 of the department’s most prestigious (read: cooperative) graduates, hist-and-lit concentrators migrated to the Thompson Room of the Barker Center, where the alcohol was free flowing and the conversation esoteric. “I’ve been writing about the same thing for so long!” laughed one middle-aged alumnus to her companion, referring...
History: New courses include Hist 1733 “Cuba: Culture and Society” and Hist 1469 “The Holocaust: History and Memory,” although the latter looks to be a poor man’s Anthro 1710 “Memory Politics” (offered next fall). Hist 16909 “The US and Imperialism” certainly seems timely, for those so inclined...
...whole view of the world came to life as a Hist and Lit student,” said Rich, who was a chair of The Crimson’s editorial board...
...tightly defined period of time. A science major might grumble that he wasted an entire course learning about the artistic construction of the samurai—after all, if you found the confluence of history and literature genuinely fascinating, you’d be a Hist and Lit concentrator. Still, there’s enough of a selection among these courses to be able to find something you’ll like or, failing that, something that’s easy. Because of the specificity of this area, there are a lot of Lit and Arts C classes that might...