Word: bating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Porter University Professor Walter Jackson Bate '39, the English Department's preemi- nent expert on 18th-century literature, yesterday led a chorus of praise for Engell's appointment...
Recalling that he was one of the advisers for Engell's doctoral dissertation. Bate said. "He did it all by himself. He knew far more than we did, we couldn't keep up with...
...news of the birth, but they were also cheering Bell himself for breaking the unwritten rules of professorial conduct, which preclude any emotional openness in the presence of the students. Bell is down to earth in a way that academic giants like Stanley Hoffmann and Walter Jackson Bate can never hope to be. Few students seem to know or even like the best and brightest of the Harvard faculty. Unflappable, omnicompetent, unremittingly rational, the Harvard prof remains--with a few exceptions--cooly unapproachable...
...Faculty financial officers say. The only Faculty members who will draw that top rate are the University Professors, a select group of scholars granted the honorary distinction of not being confined to a single department. There will be six next year: historian Bernard Bailyn, literature scholar Walter Jackson Bate. Nobel-winning physicist Nicolaas Bloembergen, economist John Dunlop, historian and Harvard Librarian Oscar Handlin, and philosopher John Rawls...
...undergraduate career was spent cutting classes (an activity about which I boasted, for reasons that now escape me). I did see enough lectures to know Harvard's oldest heritage is safe for a good many years to come. Stare around; the glorious supernova that was Walter Jackson Bate in our day, and hot ascendant luminary that in Stephen Jay Gould, to name just two. I didn't have the time to write a thesis (too busy solving world problems), but some of my best friends...And once, before I went to outback West Texas on a research trip, I spelunker...