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...reference,” says Hill, whose first name also happens to mean “hill.” “They wanted an ‘A’ name after my great-grandfather, Alec. The first person who ever mentioned it to me was Helen Vendler when I was interviewing for her freshman seminar.” A familiar face among the cast of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s Mainstage productions, Hill is the 2008 recipient of the Radcliffe Doris Cohen Levi Prize. The medal is awarded by the Harvard Office...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote on April 8 to decide whether to change its name from the cumbersome “Department of English and American Literature and Language” to the more concise “Department of English.” University Professor Helen Vendler seemed uninspired by and indifferent toward the proposed alteration, calling it a “routine change.” However, small as it may seem, the new name does a far better job of encapsulating the department and what it stands for. The Department of English and American Literature...
...member governing body of the Faculty. The department itself already uses the shorter name, with several endowed professorships carrying the name “Professor of English” and the department Web site using the title “Department of English.” English professor Helen Vendler was less than enthused about the revision, calling it a “routine change.” The Faculty also agreed to discuss a proposed lowering of the quorum—the threshold needed to pass motions—from one-sixth to one-eighth, at its meeting next...
...first, Vendler said, she didn’t find it unusual that Yeats would adopt varying poetic forms, such as sonnets or ballads; indeed, she said, many poets do. But in the end she found his use of varied poetic forms was too important to pass over...
...audience, however, appeared to disagree. At the event’s end, when Bhabha asked the crowd if they would like to ask a last question or hear Vendler read a short poem, audience members shouted, “read a poem...