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<p>The New Yorker</p>
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<p>Why Teach English?</p>
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<p>Whence, and where, and why the English major? The subject is in every mouth—or, at least, is getting kicked around agitatedly in columns and reviews and Op-Ed pieces. The English major is vanishing from our colleges as the Latin prerequisite vanished before
it, we’re told, a dying choice bound to a dead subject. The estimable Verlyn Klinkenborg reports in the Times that “At Pomona College (my alma mater) this spring, 16 students graduated with an English major out of a student body of 1,560, a terribly small
number,” and from other, similar schools, other, similar numbers.</p>
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/08/why-teach-english.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/08/why-teach-english.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true</a></p>
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