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Literature at Last

By The Crimson Staff

Literature at Last (excerpt)

December 16, 1980



The Faculty’s sluggishness in adapting its structures to new currents of thought is legendary, so it was a considerable surprise last week when Faculty members voted overwhelmingly to approve an undergraduate concentration in literature—only three millenia since the birth of this field.

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