Word: marius
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sommers, standing at the front of the room, answered the questions curtly and looked shocked. Richard C. Marius, the director of the program, sat nearby and stewed. He looked sick, and he would later spend time in Stillman Infirmary for a "stomach problem," believed to be an ulcer...
Sometime during that meeting, or maybe in the first few hours after it, Marius made a decision: He would tolerate no more dissent...
...assumed that every preceptor in theExpository Writing Program be seriously engaged inwriting prose," Marius wrote in a January 29, 1990memo to teachers. "The fundamental policy of thisprogram is that the best teachers of writing arethose who write themselves...
...cannot run a writing program that big withtwo people [Marius and Sommers]," says Hoy, theformer senior preceptor. "It cannot be done well...
...interview, Marius acknowledged thedifficulty of fitting four essays in a semester,suggesting that the requirements may be reviewed.But the status quo persists, as it has for years...