Journal 3 (1/6/15)

Tentative chapter outline for first chapter:

Working Title: The Birth of English at a Land-Grant College, 1893-1934

Section 1: Land-Grant Education: A Radical Experiment in Progressive Education

Section 2: The Development of UNH as a Land Grant

Section 3: Developing a Curriculum in English at a Land-Grant College

Additional Notes:

Why does the story about the snafu over journalism matter, if it matters at all?

Did they still have journalism courses at UNH in the early 1950s/60s or were these rooted out by the humanists who were in control of the curriculum by then?

Here was an exigence—a need to connect the work of the university with a practical cause and it ended up bringing Murray to campus, a reformer in disguise and can we point to this as one of the crucial factors that began to change things in the 1960s?

In other words, here was a need to make post-secondary study in English useful and to do a good job with it…a practical, utilitarian exigency.