Word: syllabus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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English 7 does look at the major American names, and Howard Mumford Jones's course has a comprehensive syllabus. And there are American authors in Brower's modern poetry course, Chapman's 160 and Guerard's Comp. Lit. But the college just does not have solid coverage of the whole field of American literature. Except for Lynn's two conference-group half courses, there are no intensive studies of particular periods of American writing, and there is none at all of the dovetailing-dates historical blanketing of the subject that every British period is treated...
English 182, "Studies in the Interpretation of Poetry" will be taught by Theodore Morrison '23, lecturer in English, during the spring term. It will consider several poets in an attempt to understand the form and content of poetry, and its relation to life, according to the course's syllabus...
...Every time we find it necessary to differ with the public syllabus for these courses, we confuse the problem for the secondary schools," Hanson said. Five of Harvard's departments have accepted the examinations and standards of the CEEB, but four have special requirements for omitting elementary courses...
...Species, Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubciydt of Omar Khayyam. Almost ignored in the rush was a novel named The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, by one George Meredith. Today, nearly a century after, both Meredith and his Ordeal are still little more than names in an English syllabus, read only by confirmed Meredithians and by literary historians who devote their lives to tracing and piecing patiently together the links from which the chain of literary tradition and continuity is made...
...guilds-the Skinners, the Dyers, the Innholders, the Tallow Chandlers. In 1673 Charles II founded the Royal Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, to teach navigation and thus supply the Navy with apprentice officers. Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, sponsored it and Sir Isaac Newton wrote its syllabus. Peter the Great of Russia borrowed two of its students ("King's boys" or "Mathemats") to help him found a similar school in Moscow...