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...during their five college years than Americans do in their four, and they take a rigidly prescribed sequence of courses. U.S. exchange students may therefore be discouraged by the lack of electives at Soviet schools. But the Soviets are astonished by the abundance of choices. One visiting student at Wesleyan signed up for a class in jazz improvisation; several are taking courses in Christian ethics, while others are rounding out their schedules with power volleyball and Nautilus instruction. "Knowledge is broader and more universal in American colleges," observes Lyaziza Sabyrova, 22, who is now at Wheaton. Accustomed to narrow specialization...
...facts largely argue against this mythology, and the accomplishments of Richard Wilbur, 67, make it look silly. For more than 40 years, Wilbur has written poetry that garnered both critical acclaim and public recognition, including a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. He has taught at Harvard, Wellesley, Wesleyan and Smith, and generously given foreign authors an English-speaking readership, translating works by, among others, Anna Akhmatova, Jorge Luis Borges, Andrei Voznesensky and Joseph Brodsky. His words have been sung on Broadway, set to Leonard Bernstein's score in the musical Candide (1956). And last fall Wilbur became...
...than most poets of my generation, I've written public poems and direct communications." These include "Speech for the Repeal of the McCarran Act" (1956), an oblique critique of U.S. immigration law, and "For the Student Strikers" (1970), a cadenced plea for moderation during a time of trouble at Wesleyan University. Still, Wilbur likes to be provoked into poetry on his own. "I received a letter from a professor recently saying, 'Oh, come on, why don't you write us a good patriotic poem?' But I don't write poems on order...
...universities like to have other groups coming by," said Matthew L. Snyder '88, the show's producer. He said student theater programs at Brown, Yale and Wesleyan Universities as well as Boston-area high schools had agreed to host the musical...
...report itself is the result of a three-day visit to Harvard last spring, part of Harvard's reaccreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges conducted once every 10 years. The panel was chaired by Wesleyan President Colin G. Campbell...