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...arbitrarily, ten years ago, a committee from prepis and the Ivy League turned the Blackmur report, General tion In School and College. volume summarised a whole of then--and now--current tents, and proposed to solve by abolishing the Freshman uers were not put so baldly urse. But Sophomore Standing Advanced placement, both of rose out of the report, were through the Faculty in 1954, have grown like honeysuckle on giberellin, attacked the man year by ignoring it. ertheless, things went along quietly until 1958--still of discontent, still bored men, but the Advanced Stand- office remained and administra waited...
Richard Palmer Blackmur, poet and critic Litt.D...
Given these discouraging facts about well prepared students, most people are hard pressed to define or explain the syndrome which they represent. The only systematic effort was made in the Blackmur Report, General Education in School and College, a six man study of the relationship between Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Andover, Exeter, and Lawrenceville, in which Dean Bundy participated. Their explanation was that the well-prepared freshman is disturbed by the elementary quality of the freshman courses, becomes bored, and stops working for a few years...
...Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., and founder and angel of the avant-garde book publishing house, New Directions. Laughlin will be publisher and straw boss of Perspectives, but "to avoid any taint of cultism," each issue will have a different editor. Such critics and writers as Lionel Trilling, R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, Jacques Barzun, Harry Levin and Mortimer Adler have already agreed to sit in. The foundation is setting aside $500,000 for Perspectives for the first three years, will print 30,000 copies of its first issue...
...Among U.S. poets and critics who will teach at Kenyon's new School of English during the next three summers: Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell, Cleanth Brooks, Lionel Trilling, William Empson, Matthiessen, R. P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters...