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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
From the time he enters the first grade until he is at least part way through college, the American student finds himself studying something called “English.” He is required to take more years of it, by far, than of any other subject. If, anywhere along this educational scale, he is asked what he is studying, the answer is most likely to be: English—and Subject x and Subject y and Subject z.
* Definitions and Clarifications presented by members of the American Studies Association, College English Association, Modern Language Association, and National Council of Teachers of English, from a series of Conferences held throughout 1958. Copies available for 25 cents each from the Executive Secretaries of the four sponsoring Associations.
1 Members: Professor Dorothy Bethurum, Connecticut College for Women; Professor Alvina T. Burrows, New York University, (Elementary Education); Professor William Charvat, The Ohio State University; Professor Hennig Cohen, Executive Secretary, American Studies Association, University of Pennsylvania; Professor Carvel Colhns, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. William Cornog, Superintendent, New Trier High School; Dean G. Bruce Dearing, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware; Dean John S. Diekhoff, Cleveland College, Western Reserve University; Mr. Hardy R. Finch, Chairman, English Department, Greenwich High School; Professor John C. Gerber, State University of Iowa; Professor Maxwell H. Goldberg, Executive Director, College English Association, University of Massachusetts; Mr. Edward J. Gordon, Germantown Friends School; Professor Lennox Grey, Teachers College, Columbia University; Professor Brice Harris, President, National Council of Teachers of English, Pennsylvania State University; Professor J. N. Hook, Executive Secretary, National Council of Teachers of English, University of Illinois; Professor Maynard Mack, Yale University; Dr. Helen K. Mackintosh, Chief, Elementary Schools Section, U.S. Office of Education; Professor Albert H. Marckwardt, University of Michigan; Dr. Joseph Mersand, Chairman, English Department, Jamaica High School; Professor William R. Parker, Indiana University; Dean Thomas Clark Pollock, Washington Square College, New York University; Professor Henry W. Sams, President, College English Association, University of Chicago; Professor Hallett D. Smith, California Institute of Technology; Professor Henry Nash Smith, University of California (Berkeley); Professor George Winchester Stone, Jr., Executive Secretary, Modern Language Association, New York University; Professor Willard Thorp, President, American Studies Association, Princeton University; Professor Autrey Nell Wiley, Texas Woman's University; Professor James A. Work, Indiana University.
2 The members of this group are twenty-eight teachers of English, meeting under the auspices of the American Studies Association, the College English Association, the Modern Language Association of America, and the National Council of Teachers of English. Three three-day conferences were held during 1958: on 27-29 January, 11-13 April, and 16-18 June. A final meeting on 19 October considered a preliminary draft of this report. The whole enterprise has been supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation. The members of the committee will be found listed in the Appendix.
