Word: amherst
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...could double the number of courses in Afro-Am these days and still have the students to fill them," says Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and History David W. Blight, who will leave Harvard this fall for a tenure-track position at Amherst...
...despite Blight's departure, there are no new junior faculty on the way for next academic year, professors say. They stress, however, that two visiting professors--former Civil Rights leader H. Julian Bond and Amherst scholar David W. Wills--are slated to teach in the department next year and will help round out its curriculum--at least temporarily...
...their book American Mainline Religion, Wade Clark Roof of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and William McKinney of Hartford Seminary pin much of the blame for decline on long-term demographic trends. As with higher- status groups generally, the authors report, birth rates in traditional Protestant churches dropped below replacement levels in the 1960s, and future trends are alarming because of the rising average ages of members. Moreover, note Roof and McKinney, while liberal congregations never excelled at converting nonbelievers, they used to attract a steady flow of "switchers" from other churches. Social-climbing gains by high-prestige mainline...
...Crimson defeated Brown, MIT, Amherst, Queens and MIT a second time with scores of 13-6, 17-7, 10-7, 16-8, and 12-10, respectively...
...AMHERST SAXOPHONE QUARTET: BACH ON SAX (MCA Classics). Purists, beware! Your prejudice against unorthodox instrumentation could be shattered by this surprising set of Bach adaptations that has nothing gimmicky about it but the concept...