Word: merriman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Stanford Associate Professor of Art Michael J. Merriman, teaching a writing-intensive class is "both instructive and eye-opening" for professors more used to expounding on a topic than teaching a skill...
Classes varied in popularity and difficulty, much as they do today. History 1, taught by "Friskie" Merriman, described by Place as "a great big powerful guy," commanded the attention of many first-years, forcing them to poster their bedrooms with massive lists of significant historical dates. Also required of first-years was English A, an introduction to British and American literature. And the 1940's were not without their guts. Winslow remembers Music 1, which taught the recognition and appreciation of music, as "easy but fascinating...
...stock situations of less accomplished playwrights. It focuses, among other things, on the importance of names and naming, doing its best to refute Shakespeare's dictum that a rose by any other name smells as sweet. As a result, Wilde presents Prism, the angular and edgy governess, Merriman, the gloomy butler and Chasuble the priest...