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Except for a bibliography of the necessary reading, the pamphlet suggests no method of procedure. Consultation with the student's advisor is directed, but the average Junior or Sophomore has learned through unfortunate experience that the men to be consulted, although eager to assist, are already overburdened. As a substitute and feeling the need of aid, he seeks a course that will help in his work, and finds that except for intensive studies of individual authors, or very broad Comparative Literature outlines, nothing is available. Men who must work in the Classics are further hindered by the lack of courses...
...vast majority, candidates for the honor B.A. At Oxford he may get into touch with the man or men who will give him exactly the help he needs in defining his subject and pursuing his research, but the initiative rests with him. He will find no department pamphlet or department organization to map out his course of study...
...Divisions of Ancient and Modern Languages have just published a pamphlet announcing their plans for reading in the Bible, Shakespeare, Ancient and Modern Authors, which is required of those who concentrate in the Divisions. The plans are based on the idea that the history of Literature is continuous, and that every well-educated person should have a general acquaintance with the masterpieces of the great literatures...
...pamphlet describing these plans in detail may be obtained at University...
Every field of human activity has its peculiar innovation in this age of radical reform. The Fabians and their kin are busy penning their scholarly dissertations; and more humble intelligensia, essays for handbill and pamphlet. The artist folk, in timely appeal to the aesthetic boobery, sanctions and cherishes Armfield's "synthetic drama" and the futurist antics of Marinetti. The reader of the newspapers learns with astonishment that the aeroplane has been successfully adopted by criminals for purpose of escape, and that Trotzky is producing a series of communistic plays which he is forcing the hapless Russians to attend...