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Professional Notes and Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Fredson Bowers ,
Francis Lee Utley ,
Paul J. Korshin  and
F. Edward Cranz
Fredson Bowers
Affiliation:
Univ. of Virginia
Paul J. Korshin
Affiliation:
Univ. of Virginia
F. Edward Cranz
Affiliation:
Univ. of Virginia
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(On 1 June 1970, Fredson Bowers received a D.Litt. from Brown Univ. The following excerpts from his commencement address to the graduate school explore some of the central issues now facing the MLA. The parts of the speech omitted deal with the history and present state of the movement for a Doctor of Arts degree.)

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PMLA , Volume 85 , Issue 5 , October 1970 , pp. 1118 - 1142
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1970

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Note 1 in page 1132 See “Crowded Museum.” PMLA, 85 (May 1970), 566. The Secretary's letter also went to the deans or directors of 162 foreign universities.

Note 2 in page 1134 For the statistics concerning the use of the British Museum by scholars, see the Dainton Report, Report of the National Libraries Committee (H. M. S. O., 1969), pp. 167-226.

Note 3 in page 1134 See Don Cameron Allen, The Ph.D. in English and American Literature (New York: Holt, 1968), passim.

Note 4 in page 1134 The controversy in several London newspapers in March and April 1970 regarding the B.M.'s present and projected facilities is instructive, but unlikely to yield rapid improvement; see, e.g., correspondence by G. S.Rousseau and others, The Guardian, 23, 28, 30 March and 7 April 1970; cf. separate articles in The Guardian, 24 March, and The Sunday Times. 12 April 1970.