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The shortage of teachers?and their new respectability?has given professors mobility and financial independence, which too many use to demand fewer teaching hours so that they can spend more time in research, writing and lucrative consultation. At the nation's top universities, the average science professor carries only six...
Stein became chairman of the department this year, and at the present time is also the coordinator of language courses. He has had little time to devote to the latter job, he said.
* Tutors could choose whether their students would study specialized topics for one or two terms. If the tutor decides on one term, he would devote the other to a modified survey of great historians, similar to the present sophomore tutorial. If he decides on two terms, the two periods chosen...
The advantages of a fifth course are clear. Many students, particularly honors candidates who devote half of their course work to concentration requirements, would welcome having an extra course with which to experiment. Juniors and seniors often regret that they have had little time to sample courses totally unrelated to...
Died. Amory L. Haskell, 72, industrialist and sportsman, who in the late 1920s introduced auto safety glass from Great Britain to the U.S. market, then at the age of 38 retired to devote himself to horse breeding and racing, most notably as founder (in 1946) and president of New Jersey...