Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whitman currently teaches Greek A, and two Greek literature courses. Alfred heads Humanities 3, "Crisis and the Individual," and lectures in Early English Literature. He has written a play, "Hogan's Goal," on the problems of evil, and man's essential aloneness...
...lower level Humanities course, "centering around drama in a broad sense," will be offered next year by the Committee on General Education, it was learned yesterday. William Alfred, assistant professor of English, and Cedric H. Whitman '38, associate professor of Greek and Latin, will lecture...
...Although Mr. Alfred and I are contemplating the contents for such a course," Whitman said last night, "we have not yet formulated any definite plans." He noted that "my associate interprets the word 'drama' in a broad way, and we may want to include other things in addition to dramatic works...
...result of the new course, Whitman stated, will be to "relieve some of the pressure on a large course like Humanities 2." But he emphasized that the new course, "although it may deal with some of the same themes, is not intended in any sense to replace Humanities 2, but rather to go along with...
...nonconformity is to have its rightful say in American life, as it did with Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Veblen, it must stop making a fetish of itself. Conformity ... may, in the end, prove to have the greater attraction for those genuinely seeking a free and full life. After all, unrestricted amateur nonconformism is one of the honorable paths in American history. In the meanwhile, we must oppose all efforts of the dedicated nonconformists to make us not conform according to their rules...