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History and Literature is a synthesis presupposing a valid cultural unity--rather vague terms, which no one on the Committee (H & L is not a department) is eager to define.
The idea of presuming to teach History and Lit as a synthesis--and not as a combination--necessitates a meeting-ground. Someplace, literature must be taught as history and vice versa. There is some consensus as to when this is valid--as, for example, that the art of a Shakespeare...
The History and Literature that the tutors of the Thirties taught and at which some current tutors aim went beyond Barrett Wendell's original aims. It was a synthesis of the disciplines rather than a combination; it sought an understanding of an entire period or country through the study of...
Your recent article about the teaching of languages at Harvard, while interesting and in some ways constructive, suffers, I believe from two major defects. In the first place, it seems to be based on interviews held more than a year ago; we have made many changes since. More importantly, it...
Some other selected passages will indicate the significance of this catalogue in the modern American cultural synthesis: