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...with soft pencils on sheets of bright yellow paper, getting about 20 words to a sheet, words which he cannot see, although he peers at them through a thick goggle. After he has finished the first draft of a piece, it is read back to him, and he makes oral revisions sentence by sentence. Thurber always was a relentless reviser (he rewrote The White Deer 25 times) so that his composition has become slow and painful. Nevertheless, in the past ten years he has written and published more than he did in the previous...
...Oral Essays...
...coming year Levin will give the popular Shakespeare course, 123, again, but his English drama from the origin to the closing of the theatres will be omitted. Levin's lectures are like oral essays; they are carefully constructed and seem rehearsed in delivery. Bush gives an authoritative but somewhat stodgy course in Milton...
Each year the department assigns a reading project which it later tests in group oral examinations. Of late the assignments have been several books of the Bible and eight plays of Shakespeare during the sophomore year, and source readings in Greek historians and selected Greek tragedies during the junior year. These works get a quick once ever but their reading achieves a taste of, and often for, literature which so often the undergraduate talks about, hears about, but never looks into...
...concentrators must take two general examinations at the end of the senior year. Honors candidates must also write a thesis, based at least partly on original work, and take an oral test based on the thesis...