CONTENTS

From the Editor

The Pure Good of Literature: A Celebration

Bearing Witness
Frederick Crews

The Pure and the Good: On Baseball and Backpacking
Norman Maclean

Why I Have Liked to Read Poetry
Darwin T. Turner

Teaching Writing

Scribes and True Authors
Thomas J. Farrell

Writing Programs and the English Department
Richard Lloyd-Jones

Business Writing and the Liberal Arts Tradition
Arthur P. Walzer

Research in Composition and the Design of Writing Programs
Richard VanDeWeghe

The Major

Literacy and Literature
Ward Hellstrom

The Chairman

The Chairman as Servant
Rupert Palmer, Jr

The Numbers

Salaries in Graduate English Departments
George J. Worth

Literature Electives Survey
Arthur P. Young

Survey of Workload and Compensation
Don N. Smith

Survey of Graduate Teaching Assistantship Stipends
Bert Hitchcock and C. Richard Fenno