Watson recalls the caliber and continuity of writers in the English department at Woman's College over decades. He discusses the conflict over general education during Chancellor Edward Kidder Graham, Jr.'s tenure, characteristics of Mereb Mossman and Katherine Taylor and the transition to a commuter university, coeducation, integration, and increased graduate programs. He describes the students and campus during the fifties and sixties, dedication to teaching of the older female faculty members and the eventual decline of the arts festival. Subjects: Randall Jarrell, Peter Taylor, his first impressions of the campus and the South, strong liberal arts tradition of Woman's College, the student body being mainly from North Carolina and so strong academically, the faculty during the 1950s, Katherine Taylor, Mereb Mossman, the small number of administrators compared to the number of students, the Art Festival held each spring during which visiting writers, poets, dancers, painters, and sculptors came to the campus, coeducation and integration, now a commuter campus, older students, the writing department, graduate programs on campus.