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Literature at Last
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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