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A university English professor discusses a class effort to develop concepts concerning lyric poetry and to apply them to specific poems. Problems arising from the different manners in which authors present their poems are described. Poetic order and emphasis are examined. (CK)

Better equipped than most teachers in a humanistic background and in a knowledge of advances in interdisciplinary study, the English teacher is well-qualified to achieve a major educational goal--to help a student acquire a disciplined attitude toward knowledge through the analysis of ideas. One method of reaching this goal is through the utilization of Richard McKeon's four-stage sequential approach to interdisciplinary study. In this plan, the student, with the guidance of the teacher, first learns how to acquire and evaluate facts; he then moves on to a creative discovery, to the presentation of his ideas, and, finally, to a systematization of his knowledge into a broad structure. Within these stages, each teacher must develop his own techniques; but if the four stages are followed in an interdisciplinary course of study, the result will tend toward the formation of an open-minded, creative, articulate, and purposive student body. (LH)

Presents a humorous view of the committee, its members, and its functions on the campus. (RK)

Suggestions on way to respond to letters of reference for doctoral applicants. (IR)

short-story writer, aphorist, newspaperman, essayist, versifier. Not only the United States--the Middle West and both coasts--but England as well can lay claim to having been the home of Ambrose Bierce. […]