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...doing them a disservice. Balancing social and extracurricular commitments with a four- or five-course load is tough; engaging fruitfully with those courses is tougher. Certainly, undergrads should be prepared to work—and “work hard,” as Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson puts it. But they simply do not have the time or the stamina to read a total of 1,200 pages a week. Incidentally, Ferguson assigns over 300 pages each week in History 10b. Many professors argue that it is not easy to achieve both depth and breadth in designing...
What does she most enjoy doing off duty? She manages her racehorses and the breeding program. Her knowledge is just astronomic. She has a genealogical brain. Sarah [Ferguson, Andrew's former wife] will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly--and across several generations...
...liked Alan Dershowitz. I liked also a guy who subsequently passed away named Clyde Ferguson, who was one of the only African-American professors there. He was always willing to take students over to the Faculty Club and have cocktails, so we developed a friendship with...
...female and minority professors—said that the number of African-Americans in hard-science Ph.D. programs had decreased in recent decades. The panel came in the context of a weekend conference sponsored by the BLSA and centered on the theme of empowerment. Kennedy School economist Ronald F. Ferguson said that “empowerment comes from building our human capital and using it for purposes that matter to us.” Law student Amanda K. Edwards, one of the organizers of the event, explained that the BLSA chose empowerment as this year’s theme because...
...first episode. The rest, as Niall Ferguson might say, is history...