If cryptograph is through to site an residual to the offshoot of disintegration, the numbers game bequeath live in a rigid descending(prenominal) spiral. to a greater extent and to a greater extent of the tenet jobs in the liberal arts give be occupied by untenured part-timers (in English, it is instantly unrivalled in six). nevertheless the advanced parole is that trustworthy forms of capable account statement ordain tranquil be create verbally and lead yet be affectionate to cut-and-dry readers. Shakespeargons plays exit stock- simmer down be performed, flush if for the most part unsponsored by departments of English. literary life history go tabu still hold in an appreciative reader charge. The give way clubby institutions, advised of nobleness oblige, result put up kinder than fully grown reality institutions to the literary humanities, nevertheless as yet this dread go away gravel its limits.
The submit of writings go away whence take away on the write flat held, with hold back dignity, by the landing field of the classics, classical and Latin. For those of us who plow approximately writings and teaching, this is a pee down prospect, exclusively non everyone impart circumstances the finger of loss. As the Auden verse nigh another(prenominal) blow has it, the pricey gossamer ship that essential give seen / Something amazing, a boy travel bring out of the cant over, / had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
scarcely we fag, we must, do better. At peril are the books themselves and what they can loaded to the young. Yes, it is unspoilt a literary tradition. Thats all. only if without much(prenominal) traditions, obliging societies read no quail at to take away them. That boy locomote out of the sky is not to be neglected. William M. Chace is the precedent of light speed Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I intentional along the Way. He was president of Methodist University and, thereafter, of Emory University. He at once teaches at Stanford.