Word: emeritus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...EACH MORNING for a leisurely breakfast and to hear of the exceptionally depraved sexual adventures of one of our colleagues on the previous night," John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, reminisces about his days as a Winthrop House tutor in The Age of Uncertainty, his most recent book. In Galbraith's days, breakfast served as an integral part of that great Harvard educational institution, the dining hall, where many a bumpkin has learned grace, style and the art of fine conversation. Today, meals later in the day fill that role, and breakfast consists of a quick, watery...
...judges were Owen C. Thomas, an Episcopal priest at the Divinity School, Paul C. Reardon '32, a former Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, and Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus. As stipulated in the original grant for the contest, the judges represented the cloth, the bar and education...
...testimony of Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Oliver Professor of Hygiene Emeritus, was designed to affect the politicians in another way. Farnsworth had changed positions on decriminalization completely. Having testified against marijuana for the prosecution in a 1967 test case in Boston, Farnsworth vice-chaired the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse established during the Nixon administration. A blue-ribbon group of establishment notables, the commission spent millions of dollars in extensive analysis and published its findings in March 1972 in Marijuana: Signal of Misunderstanding. It was a book that former President Nixon did not care to read. Oteri notes...
...would like the delegates to use their own heads when they decide on these issues in June, but we expect our discussions to make a difference," James L. Adams, Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity Emeritus, yaid yesterday...
Galbraith's project attempts to do for the history of economics what Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man did for science and what Kenneth Clark's Civilisation did for art. Of the three, the professor emeritus from Harvard has the most difficult job. Economics is hard on the head and soft on visuals. Portraits of Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes are simply not as rousing as thermonuclear explosions or The Naked Maja. But the obscure theories that economists set adrift have far-reaching consequences. Said Keynes: "Practical men, who believe themselves...