Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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By seeking open-discussion with often-frustrated junior professors, students may find support for proposals such as systematic undergraduate advice on tenure decisions. While students' abilities to assess professors' scholarly credentials are often slim, undergraduates can often give valuable assessments of a faculty member's lecturing talents or willingness to...
The task for Vellucci, who as a state representative can hire only one assistant, is less extensive. Yet the East Cambridge insurance agent is easily devoting as much time to his effort. Like Harshbarger, Vellucci gained his seat by beating a long-time incumbent in the Democratic primary, and he...
Oddly enough, Carter's treatment of the Iranian hostage crisis, though substantial, is not as complete or as interesting as Jordan's. One can only speculate that, here too, the episode proved so embarrassing and politically fatal that he prefers to forget about it. Instead, he devotes a small chapter...
There are as many descriptions of the first of these divergences as members of the two departments, but they boil down to a pair of truisms: Harvard economists tend to devote more time to research than teaching, while the reverse is true at MIT: and Harvard professors tend to work...
The opportunity to devote more energy towards research is one of Harvard's strongest trump cards in negotiating with MIT economists. Dornbusch and Flacher both-say the subject was stressed in their discussions with the University. In addition, several professors else the abundance of research time an the factor the...