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...little in the past has the importance of American literature been heeded by the faculty of Harvard. With the sudden departure of Bernard De Voto the last vestige of a modern American literature course disappeared. For the current year English 70 has been discontinued, and when it is resumed in February of 1938, there is no telling what changes the mysterious withdrawal of Harvard's Whistler will have wrought. His flight from Harvard caused regret among many students and gave rise to renewed criticism of the administration. It would seem that nothing can be done now to right the wrong...
...that the tercentenary is over--the heart of any university, whether it is a year or three hundred years old, is the faculty. Can it be that Harvard is senile enough to let that truism slip out of its mind? The news that the University had permitted Bernard De Voto to get away from it I heard with an emotion pretty close to amazement. Mr. De Voto's other students, and anyone else who knows his work, must be similarly amazed...
There are so many mediocre teachers. There are so many at Harvard. Harvard should have hung on to Benny De Voto if it had to offer him Sever Hall with the Memorial Chapel thrown in. I am aware that he resigned in order to accept the editorship of the Saturday Review of Literature. But if a great university has no resources sufficient to retain a teacher it badly needs, a good many young men are going to regret that fact...
...colleagues would call men of letters. But even in his short time he made English 31, or whatever they call it now, clearly the best composition course Harvard has had for many years. Any qualified person will tell you, moreover, that in the field of American literature Mr. De Voto's ability can be equalled only with difficulty. I cannot believe that Harvard does not know what everyone knows . . . He actually made his students think. He made the dullest of them think. The dullest of them hereby testifies that De Voto was the only man he studied under who ever...
...successor to Edward Sanford Martin '77 who retires after fifteen years in "The Chair," Do Voto steps into the oldest editorial post in America, begun in 1853 under the editorship of George William Curtis and continued from 1900 to 1920 by William Dean Howells...