Word: levins
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...That reaction hasn’t been unique to Harvard: when Yale announced plans in early January to increase endowment spending by nearly 40 percent, with an emphasis on financial aid, Yale President Richard C. Levin was even more direct about calling policymakers the catalyst...
...Under the tutelage of professors Archibald MacLeish, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and Harry T. Levin ’33, a literary critic, Kozol planned a life in creative writing...
...From MacLeish, Levin, and the Paris group, Kozol said he developed an “admiration for people who were not only good at what they did, but also good at conveying it to younger people.” They “predisposed” Kozol to teaching, “but the specific event that precipitated my decision to teach” was the June 1964 murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi...
...began to question his academic focus after receiving an “A” in a course taught by comparative literature professor Harry T. Levin ’33, though he had attended only two lectures. After he was able to rely on generic literary terms to write an exam essay on a book he had not read, Sheehan said he decided it was time for something more challenging...
...Harvard, but compared to music conservatories. They are top notch players.”This is high praise from an individual with a Cello Masters scholarship to Julliard who has worked with such famous musicians as Ethzak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma ’76, and Harvard professor Robert Levin. Yu says that she has had wonderful encounters with all of these artists, highlighting time spent with Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble as one of her most influential experiences.“Everyone was so friendly and so interested in what you have to say as a musician...