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Joseph E. Evans letters, 1935-1954
1940-12-17 Joseph Evans to John & Mary Evans Page 2
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book should provide an admirable entrée for yours. I have not read Father de Smed but I have looked into it and it seems excellent. To my great surprise, I discovered yesterday that I am now Norman Foerster's protegé. A new plan with regard to graduate assistants has been put into effect, whereby each member of the permanent faculty is asked to act as advisor to each graduate assistant in English - conferring with him about the problems of teaching, attending some of the graduate assistant's classes, reading themes he has graded, etc. - the general idea being to achieve a closer relationship between the permanent faculty and the graduate assistant staff. Consequently Foerster was asked to make his selection, and he chose me. This is a great honour, perhaps, and certainly an excellent political arrangement, but it is not without its frightening aspects, as you can well imagine. Foerster is greatly impressed with my work in Literary Criticism and thinks I have fine possibilities in that direction. I hope his does not sound conceited - the whole business has completely amazed me - and I have never been more fully aware of my limitations than I am right now. The point is that if Foerster's present high opinion of me continues, my academic future is pretty well assured. We leave Thursday noon in [Merco?] Spann's car -
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book should provide an admirable entrée for yours. I have not read Father de Smed but I have looked into it and it seems excellent. To my great surprise, I discovered yesterday that I am now Norman Foerster's protegé. A new plan with regard to graduate assistants has been put into effect, whereby each member of the permanent faculty is asked to act as advisor to each graduate assistant in English - conferring with him about the problems of teaching, attending some of the graduate assistant's classes, reading themes he has graded, etc. - the general idea being to achieve a closer relationship between the permanent faculty and the graduate assistant staff. Consequently Foerster was asked to make his selection, and he chose me. This is a great honour, perhaps, and certainly an excellent political arrangement, but it is not without its frightening aspects, as you can well imagine. Foerster is greatly impressed with my work in Literary Criticism and thinks I have fine possibilities in that direction. I hope his does not sound conceited - the whole business has completely amazed me - and I have never been more fully aware of my limitations than I am right now. The point is that if Foerster's present high opinion of me continues, my academic future is pretty well assured. We leave Thursday noon in [Merco?] Spann's car -
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