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Nathan I. Huggins, director of the Institute, said yesterday the series is the first major lectureship for "distinguishing those who have worked with Afro-American life...
...years Housman refused the considerable royalties of his verse. "Vanity, not avarice," he announced, "is my ruling passion." When Bertrand Russell lobbied for draft resistance in World War I, Housman refused to protest Russell's removal from his lectureship at Cambridge. He contributed a substantial sum to the war effort, thereby wiping out most of his savings. In academia, Housman was feared by colleagues for ruining the reputations of classicists with his vitriolic criticism...
...former resident tutor in North House, Kollmann said she has also been nominated to a lectureship in the History Department next year...
...seeing my kids grow up," he explained, after announcing his intention to step down as leader of the Liberal Party. "And for three weeks," he added, "I'd begun enjoying my new life." He had received a number of job offers, including an $80,000-a-year lectureship in the U.S. And though his estranged wife Margaret, 31, had bought a house in Ottawa and looked after the children during the campaign, friends say that there is almost no chance of a reconciliation...
...that the company is on vacation, Havergal has found the time to direct at the Loeb, and to do a recent Regent's Lectureship on Drama at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he lectured on theater management ("I love the Barnum and Bailey part of it all," he says), and conducted a directing workshop. "I was particularly keen to come here and work with students on a production," Havergal says, "because I haven't done any work with them since I left college [Oxford...