Word: instructors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
More than 750 students, parents, and alumni sat motionless in the silence of Sanders Theater as Helen M. Caldicott, an instructor in pediatrics at Children's Hospital and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, described the horrors of nuclear war and the "psychic numbing" politicians and military leaders rely on to portray nuclear armament as necessary and moral...
After basing himself for several years in Las Vegas, Uston now lives in Margate City outside Atlantic City, where he makes a living by remote-piloting his blackjack team. He is a busy and popular instructor and lecturer, who charges students $500 for a course but lectures for free. He has written three books-one of which, the autobiographical The Big Player, is slated to be produced as a film by Frank Capra. He is a swinging bachelor who tries to conceal his age ("I date a lot of young girls") and a celebrity in the gambling world. That...
...mainstay of an Exeter education is a demanding round-table discussion, with no more than 14 students, led by an expert teacher. Warns Exeter's catalogue: "Maximum participation is encouraged, pretense and careless preparation [are] readily perceived." In practice, this means that Math Instructor Richard Brown knows his students will be prepared before he begins class discussion by asking, "Have we proved the equation?" In third-year French, Exonians are required to discuss in French their assigned stories. Anyone who lapses into English meets with the teacher afterward to talk things over -in French. Most of the school...
Galbraith did not lay out his career in tedious rows. Teaching, Government service and writing follow a cyclical path. As a university instructor he feared "that my superiority would not be recognized." He found ample acceptance for his expertise in public service and journalism, first, in 1940, as a Keynesian economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, during World War II in the Office of Price Administration, and then as an interrogator of Nazi war criminals and assessor of Allied bomb damage. Whenever Washington appeared to offer him an office but little to do, he returned to FORTUNE, where...
Krister Stendahl, professor of Divinity and co-instructor of the Divinity School's current offering in Jewish studies, said yesterday that the endowment will allow "the Jewish tradition to define itself," adding that "there is no better way to do this than to have the possibility of a tenure appointment...