Word: lits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guarding, the initial suck all be E. J. Sack. On the Keystone sack will be J. J. Sack. On the third sack, replacing P. Sack, will be Tightfisted C. $coundrel. At shortstop, the Crime will offer Wilful S. ("Special When Lit") Fouifellow...
They were failures in the community. As all good Communist leaders must be, they were men with a talent for subservience, half citizens in the half-lit world of the Communist conspiracy. To rule, it was necessary to take orders. The only True Word, they taught as they had been taught, was the word from Moscow. Actually political neuters, they lived by the rule that the Comintern was the responsible custodian of men's minds and men's consciences...
Very few men in the field became "pass candidates" however, and the proportion of History and Lit concentrators who become Phi Beta Kappas is very great...
...divided half and half between the literature and the history of the concentrator's country or period. The department grants great latitude, however, in what they call "related courses," and as a result History 1--while it lasted--and English 123 both get credit for American History and Lit majors. The range of possible courses makes the department one of the least specialized in the College...
...addition to the Faculty Big Names associated with the History and Lit department, such as F. O. Matthiessen, who will be absent next year but will return in the fall of 1950, there is a group of tuors who are specialists in each of the fields, and every concentrator gets regular tutorial guidance from the time he enters, unless his grades fall below the minimum Group IV rating...