Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starting point for the HDC is was just the middle of a long struggle for G. P. Baker. Baker started teaching at Harvard in 1888 as an instructor in elocution, but gradually became interested in the theater. In the 90's he began teaching courses at both Radcliffe and Harvard in the history of English drama from its birth to the present. This in itself was a considerable innovation, since at the turn of the century academic circles did not think of an author still alive as one who could write "literature." English courses of the day ended abruptly with...
Clarence L. Hogan was appointed associate professor of Applied Physics; Lloyd M. Trefethen, professor of Mechanical Engineering; and Andrew R. Lang, instructor in Metallurgy...
Harvard faculty members have taught at Radcliffe since the school's infancy in 1879--thus the familiar term Annex. But each Harvard professor who taught at Radcliffe was under separate contract. Jordan, an instructor in History at Harvard from 1931 to 1937, was among that group. "You would lecture to Harvard at nine and then spring breathlessly across the Common to Long fellow to deliver the same lecture at ten," he says, "and you heard your same jokes fall flat a second time...
...education. But Jordan has been familiar with Radcliffe for over a quarter of a century. He came to Harvard in 1923 to get a masters degree after graduating from Oakland City College in Oakland City, Indiana. Picking up a Ph.D. in 1931, he promptly joined the faculty as an instructor in history and a tutor in history, government, and economics. It was in this period that he started teaching at Radcliffe...
...Appleton, White felt, and said he felt, marooned, and that his job was beneath his talents. He is remembered there as an excellent instructor but a distant, arrogant man who "thought the White opinion was the only opinion." No Marxist, he taught economics "as conservatively as Adam Smith," said one of his superiors. 'While there, he published his Harvard thesis, The French International Accounts 1880-1913, in book form. Its most interesting lines are in the acknowledgments. There is one to Dr. L. (for Lauchlin) B. (for Bernard) Currie, who read the manuscript...