Word: instructors
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Otto Eckstein, instructor in Economics, agreed with Harris that a sales tax is not a completely satisfactory method for raising revenue. "An adjustment in the graduated income tax would have been preferable, but such a tax would not answer the immediate need for funds," he affirmed...
...practical matter," said the dean, "it would place an intolerable burden upon an instructor who must at semester's end read and grade from 275 to 600 examination books to require that he mark the misspellings, the solecisms, and the abuse of language, and undertake to explain to the errant the proper usage." A course in remedial writing would not be feasible either. Warren's recommendation: that the colleges give each prospective law student an examination in expository writing at the end of his junior year to see if he needs extra work. Passing a second test would...
...Committee hopes that if a suitable candidate can be found, the College will be able to give the student some scholarship aid. A selection committee has already been named. Its three members will be Carl Kaysen, associate professor of Economics, Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, Louis Lefaber, instructor in Economics, and Robert S. November '58, of the House Committee...
...Harvard University, or who, being twenty-one years of age and upward, has been connected for at least two academic years with any department of Harvard University as a student in good standing, or who has been connected for at least one academic year with Harvard University as an instructor, or as a member of any Board or Committee, shall be eligible to regular membership. But no student in any department of the University shall be eligible unless he shall have already received a degree from the University...
Died. Percy Marks, 65, onetime Brown University English instructor who intoxicated the '20s with The Plastic Age, a near-beer novel of college loose life compounded of watered-down Freud and hoked-up Fitzgerald; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn. Novelist Marks quit teaching after his book got banned in Boston (1924), became a bestseller and a Clara Bow film. He later wrote several lukewarm potboilers and a few textbooks, eventually drifted back to English teaching. Embers from the red hot prose that set the Jazz Age afire: "The musicians played as if in a frenzy, the drums pound...