Word: stegner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last January, the New Republic had printed an article about Hill by Wallace Stegner, professor of English at Stanford University. It concluded: "Hill . . . was probably guilty of the crime [a coldblooded killing of two men] though I think the State of Utah hardly proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt...
...departure of George P. Baker in 1924 and of Wallace Stegner, Mark Schorer, and others in recent years for more inviting universities has occasioned a constant dismay in those who would like to see the teaching of creative writing an important part of Harvard's curriculum. Although the prospects for next year show a greater number of courses in the field, the English Department has no program to offer comparable to that of a number of other colleges, notably Iowa and Stanford. At Stanford, for example, there is a creative writing "center", with fat scholarships for young writers, and, perhaps...
...tenure and chance of advancement so that they will not leave for the West at the first opportunity. The awarding of five-year professorships and Briggs-Copeland Instructorships to several writing teachers in the last two years has been an advance in this respect. Nevertheless, the departure of Stegner for Stanford during the war still leaves the need for a man who can organize the field and make it a workable unit...
...brain child is managed by a brain trust headed by John Wendell Dodds, dean of Stanford's School of Humanities and younger brother of Princeton President Harold Willis Dodds. Other members: Stanford's Wallace Stegner, California's George R. Stewart, U.C.L.A...
Spectator, says Adviser Stegner, "hasn't a single ax to grind.. . . There ought to be a good Western magazine that you don't have to be ashamed to support." At the first year's end, Spectator's founding fathers were unashamed...