Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French, German, Slavic, and particularly to English Department would realize that the training of assistant professors is not their only function, and if they would modify their policy of "an annual half course for every half century," a lot more faculty talent would be available for Comp. Lit. Specialists could still find their kind of course given every other year, and the general students would have more opportunity to approach literature in the way he seems to like best...
...work sewing mail sacks) had put him in a mood to talk, and he did his best to describe a man to whom he had turned over documents and verbal messages in the U.S. The go-between, he said, was a short, stocky, soft-spoken fellow with Slavic features, an oval face and a penchant for pin-striped suits. His conversation reflected scientific training. But what was his name? Where did he live? What was his background? Fuchs had never found...
...Slavic Department was completely reorganized this year, and now has much variety as any department in the College. One can take courses in anything from Comparative Slavic Linguistics and Beginning Ukranian to Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, each taught by outstanding specialists...
...literature generally do not require a knowledge of Russian, but for concentrators and others knowing the language it is recommended that the reading be done in the original. Professor Michael Karpovich, who gave up History 1 this year to concentrate on his new duties as head of the Slavic Department, gives the general survey courses...
...requirements for majoring in Slavic are about the same as for most fields: General examinations in the senior year, group tutorial for juniors and seniors out for Honors, and a thesis in the senior year. Six courses are required for concentration, eight for Honors, but two of these may be in related fields and two will almost always be the first year intensive Russian course...