Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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ENGLISH ENDDURADES INDEPENDENT STUDY ,. .' 1.. '--- 's' - , A -A I ' '-f' .. :': 'T-L-14',5glj7,if, . AfE'f7?. 'NF V' 4. 1- . N' , w ?: ffieE . 1 .. 15.-, ,, I V, , , A 1 K 41 During a Friday Tea in April, it was difficult to distinguish which was funnier, the subject of the Tea, Comedy, or the comedians, the members of the English Depa.rtment who were discussing it, jeremy Warburg, Warren Kliewer, Paul Lacey, and Warren Staebler. 23 ' A

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The Department of English, under the leadership of Chairman Warren Staebler. seemed to be bubbling with increased creativity this year, stemming both from the students and from the English faculty. Independent study played an impor- tant role in the departments curricula. The department attempted to provide increased opportunity for independent study for English majors in areas of their special interest. ln the second temi of humanities, a group of freshmen par- ticipated in an experiment in independ- ent study. It was hoped that such an experiment would stimulate additional interest on the part of the students par- ticipating. In the fall both Paul Lacey and Kath- leen Postle returned to the department after a year's absence. Paul Lacey had spent the year at Pendle Hill, where he led a seminar on the Spiritual Prob- lem in Nlodern Literaturef' During the year, he also delivered a paper to the Society for Religion in Higher Educa- tion. Kathleen Postle spent her year's sabbatical in part bv beginning a novel which is to be completed sometime in the future. A new member in the department was jeremy Warburg, whose special interest lay in the field of poetic linguistics. First term. as well as teaching freshman hu- manities, he taught the language of literature and third temi the Victorian period. a course offered here for the first time. The author of The Impact of Science in the Nineteenth Century on the Poetic Voeuliulary, jeremy XVarburg will be missed by students here next year since he will have returned to Eng- land by then. As in the past, Warren Kliewer con- tinued to be literally prolific. Those in Convocation benefited from his pen when they saw the student production of his t'The Harrowing of Hell in April. For his play Philip Melanchtoni' he won the drama division prize in the Religious Arts Festival at Rochester. Once again foreign study in England supplemented the academic work of the English student at Earlham. Leigh Cib- by led the group which spent the spring term in London. Next year. Iohn Hunt, who is currently working on a book concerned with practical literary criti- cism. will lead an other group to Eng- land. Another aspect of the department in- volved its continuing concern about the need for competent English teachers at both the elementary and secondary lev- el. The United States Department of Education has instituted a Project Eng- lish in an effort to provide more ade- quate teachers of this kind. In order to more fully meet this need, the depart- ment continued to investigate methods to improve the English curricula where necessary. Other aspects of the department proved to be almost mere routine. As usual, many majors contributed to Cru- cible and Prism in addition to doing class assignments. Humanities papers were assigned and all too often cranked out between one and eight o'clock Monday morning. Other papers, too. were dutifully assigned and hope- fully as dutifully written. English ma- jors. as is nomial, scored higher than did most other students on eyestrain main- tenance. In the spring theses were labo- riously written, and comprehensives were taken and sometimes passed by the senior English majors. . si ' tt -. The development of plot in Anna Karenina is the topic of Paul Lacey's lecture to his world literature class

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LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT AIJDS IAPANESEQ GETS LAB llI'lIIl.l1'llA' lJL'L'LLLl5U ut the EllI'll1LlI11-AlTEl0Cll foreign Atudy trip lu ltllitlll. lzipuiiesn- wus TIlEI'ULlllL'L'll IIT the l..illLfll.L2t' lJ1'p.11'1111t-11t for tllt' first time tl1iQ A'C'll' Stu- LlL'11E 1-11tl111ai.1s111 1111111itestecl itm-lt lvotli for the EL'LT.CllL'I', Nlixtltu lltlllllll. .uid for the lllllgllllgli At Friday lunch , . E . the t'l.1t1t11' ul t-liupgtieks and tm- Auunds of ll strange l.111g11.1g1' I1lIIlQlt'Ll 111 1'-111111 .ix Ntudviitr- pr tl11'11' l.l15.l1T1'M' us x with the gL'11C1'Lll din ot the dining, tit-tim-tl their t-liopstick skills and My 1EE T M iw I 1 V -. 1 MJ A fs. NTI-11.1 1111111 T1-,rrlu-N 24 Z? it the firxt uluxx in I.lp.lTll'hC' :it Earllium. .-'xt tht- uw-vkly 'll'.l'4'IlK'll t11lvlv XV11lly l,i1l1t1-mtrfiri c'1111vt'1'sf-9 f-:wily with other Fw-m'h stud1-nts Rhndn Smith, T.ut'y Tlowt-Tlx, und I'Tnlr'vn Herman. S Other language students, such as those majoring in Fra-ncli, pmcticecl French conversation at dinner every Xloiiday. Coiivcrsatiori was likely to be especially lively in that it contaiined tales of foreign study trips to France. Nluny Freneli students used their language skills in an- other capacity, too, when they taught French on ele- l1TUllEill'A'. junior. and senior school-levels in Richmond. C1-rinun students. too, took advantage of the op- portunity to dine and Converse in their language at -,Q ,.,