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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Your criticism of English 72 as a course only for graduates involves. I think, a fundamental misunderstanding of Professor Lowes' aims in that course.

He tries to give the student more than general understanding of the poets and their place in time. This can be done by any ordinary critical textbook. What Professor Lowes attempts to do through the minutiae that he so insistently stresses in his course is to make the student think for himself, and to inculcate in him a true and critical power of appreciation of poetry in general.

This is very different from the pettiness of most graduate courses and is, in my opinion, vastly more important from the standpoint of general culture than a consideration of the poets in relation to their time which can be obtained in any elementary work on the romantic movement.

Therefore, I cannot but regard your suggestion that English 73 become a graduate course as a misunderstanding of Professor Lowes' ideals, one of which is an attempt to teach the student how to appreciate poetry. Grant J. Pick '32