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...office that handles Expository Writing, the only course that everyone at Harvard takes, had a new staff and a new structure this year: Gwynne B. Evans, professor of English, was its director, Jean H. Slingerland, a graduate student in English, his assistant, and there was a new four-member Standing Committee on Expository Writing...
...early December the standing committee, along with Slingerland and Evans, proposed a new structure for the Expos program. They were low on money and overburdened with large classes, so they arrived at an obvious conclusion: cut back the number of students in Expos, and the money will go around better as class sizes shrink. They proposed an exemption from Expos for students with SAT and advanced placement scores above a cutoff level...
...Releasing one-third of the freshman class every year from Expos seemed like an extreme move in a college so heavily oriented toward writing skills. After a series of discussions and meetings with the Expos people over a period of four months, the council was admanatly against the proposal. Slingerland talked to John B. Fox Jr. '59, Rosovsky's assistant, and found out that Expos classes were not actually as large as she had indicated to the council. The next week, after an emotional meeting with Rosovsky, she resigned from her post...
...Resign. "! Who? (In the morning's drowsiness I'd perhaps hoped for bigger game.) "Mrs. Slingerland, assistant director...
...done with some ingenuity. If there's someone in a position to flex his influence sagaciously, he should certainly put (if necessary) a tyrannically gifted teacher of writing in command of Expos. Evans, a very respected scholar, does not teach in the course, as far as I know. Slingerland (who does) is, as far as I know, just another graduate student working on a thesis like many of the rest of us. Whoever appointed her to such a time-consuming job. (and there has been mystery over that point) is perhaps most to blame, then. For she should be getting...