¹ The Pursuit of Excellence: Education and the Future of America, Special Studies Project Report v, Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1958).

² The CBE now has in progress, backed by a grant from the Relm Foundation of Ann Arbor, “an authoritative statement, emanating from the learned world to describe what basic education is” and to concern itself with the basic curriculum of public schools. Its October 1958 conference addressed itself to the question, “What should the good student (not necessarily the ‘gifted’ student) know and be able to do at the completion of his high school career?” Further conferences are planned to discuss means by which the ends can be attained, and then to consider teacher training and certification.

³ “Doctors and Masters—Good and Bad,” report by the Committee on Policies in Graduate Education (J. Barzun, J. P. Elder, A. R. Gordon, M. E. Hobbs, chairman), at the New York meeting of the Association of Graduate Schools (Oct. 1957).

⁴ The Teaching of English in Illinois, Educational Press Bulletin, Allerton House Conference on Education, Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (Feb. 1958).

⁵ Copies available from the MAT Program, 133 Hall of Graduate Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

⁶ Proceedings of the MLA, XLviii (1933) 1395-1407.

⁷ See John H. Fisher, “MLA Group Projects, 1921-55,” PMLA, Supplement, LXX (Sept. 1955). The article lists and comments upon the achievements of the groups, after the recognition stimulated by Manly, under 9 headings:

(1) projects initiated in MLA, but completed outside;

(2) bibliographies; (3) journals; (4) newsletters; (5) volumes of essays and texts; (6) printed reports; (7) miscellaneous activities; (8) unrealized projects; (9) projects still in progress. The department of broken hopes seems to lie in the 25 unrealized projects described in Section 8: the department of possibilities lies in the 15 projects still working, as described in Section 9.

⁸ The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research, sponsored by English IX, was first edited by T. M. Raysor and published in 1950. Its first revision appeared in 1956. The Reinterpretation of Victorian Literature, initiated in English X, edited by Joseph E. Baker and published by the Princeton University Press in 1950, has long been out of print. The English Romantic Poets and Essayists: A Review of Research and Criticism, initiated in English IX, was edited by L. H. and C. W. Houtchens, 1957. Eight American Authors: A Review of Research and Criticism, initiated by the American Literature Group, edited by Floyd Stovall, appeared in 1956.

⁹ Only three states, New York, New Mexico, and Georgia, have (Sept. 1958) special language consultants attached to the state boards.

¹⁰ Reports of the Secretary and of the Treasurer, 1955 and 1956.

¹¹ James W. Bright, Herbert E. Greene, A. Marshall Elliott of Johns Hopkins; Thomas B. Price of Columbia; and Charles H. Grandgent and Hans C. G. von Jagemann of Harvard.

¹² Proceedings of the MLA (1902), p. iv.

¹³ The Monograph Fund has finally reached a book value of $25,000.

¹⁴ Proceedings of the MLA, 47th meeting, XLV (1930), xlv.