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1963: A Generous Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

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Unless and until the modern LANguage Association changes its (unwritten) law that the presidency is usually a consolation prize bestowed upon an elder statesman, presumably because he or she has managed to live long enough to become emeritus (not for any merit, but by automatic fiat of the Board of Trustees), the presidential address will lead to reminiscence. We who no longer teach are particularly dangerous. All our academic lives, we have had captive audiences who could not choose but hear our auditions. Now that no one longer receives credit for listening to us, younger generations rightly avoid us ancient mariners, as in my youth I tried to duck American or Canadian relatives who wished to refight the Civil or the Boer Wars.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2000

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1 My quotations are from a later edition published at New York in 1935; they are all from the Introduction.