Word: emeritus
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DIED. FRANKLIN LONG, 88, U.S. government adviser and Cornell University emeritus professor whose nomination to run the National Science Foundation was blocked in 1969 by Richard Nixon; in Pomona, Calif. Long, a vehement advocate of international arms reductions, had criticized the U.S.'s antiballistic-missile system, saying it would pose "strong pressure toward acceleration of the arms race." When Nixon finally offered him the post, after protests from scientists, Long declined...
Lamont University Professor Emeritus Amartya K. Sen, a Nobel Prize winner and professor at Cambridge University, delivered the lecture, entitled "This Cambridge and That...
...study done outside of the Harvard community warns of the danger of the monster class. Wayne C. Booth, professor emeritus of English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago, who was on the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching study commission that examined Harvard last year, claims immense classes are often the source of much of the failings of any research institution. "I am passionately opposed to large classes," he says. "The real learning occurs with one-on-one education." The commission put out a report detailing the problems with undergraduate education at the nation's 125 research institutions...
Well, yeah, says Brazelton, professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and chairman of the Pampers Parenting Institute. That's the trouble. Back in the early '60s, Brazelton was distressed by the amount of bed-wetting and deliberate fecal retention he was seeing in his patients. So he asked mothers to try something new: let kids decide for themselves when to take the potty plunge...
Doing something like this may well be the least worst thing", said Francis M. Bator, Littauer professor of political economy emeritus at the KSG and a deputy national security advisor to former President Johnson...