ALONE?

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I hope you will permit me to dispel some of the anxiety caused by your recent editorial about the Department of English, for I can't believe that our prospects are as bleak as you say. To be sure, Professor Rollins' retirement is a major loss for the Department as well as for the University and the profession, but otherwise the situation is reasonably well in hand. We have been fortunate in securing the services of four distinguished persons as visiting lecturers: Miss Rosemond Tuve of Connecticut College, Mr. Northrup Frye of Toronto, Mr. F. W. Dupee of Columbia, and Mr. Armour Craig of Amherst. They will help repair the deficiencies occasioned by the sabbatical leaves of Professors Brower and Guerard; and as for Professors Levin and Bate and myself, we shall all teach here for half the year. In short, the "poor English major," whose plight you deplore, will not find himself rattling around Warren House entirely without companionship. Herschel Baker,   Chairman,   Department of English