Mr. Krumholtz ("Crooked Wood") got his Princeton Ph.D. 53 years after me. When I knew Ph.D. graduate students in English, the poor blokes spent all their time studying Anglo-Saxon for a required exam. We took language exams in German and French, and studied other languages as needed in research. No one studying Anglo-Saxon to my knowledge went into Anglo-Saxon studies; I think the requirement was a way of weeding out not the unfit, but the unwilling. And they still had to learn German and French.
Mr. Krumholtz ("Crooked Wood") got his Princeton Ph.D. 53 years after me. When I knew Ph.D. graduate students in English, the poor blokes spent all their time studying Anglo-Saxon for a required exam. We took language exams in German and French, and studied other languages as needed in research. No one studying Anglo-Saxon to my knowledge went into Anglo-Saxon studies; I think the requirement was a way of weeding out not the unfit, but the unwilling. And they still had to learn German and French.