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...high enrollment in Historical Study B-5, "The World of the Early Christians," disappointed Zeph Stewart, Mellon Professor of Greek and Latin, who said he prefers smaller classes in which one can "get closer with the people you're teaching." He speculated that limited offerings in the Historical Study department caused the large enrollment in his course...
...emeritus: "People now enter this profession with their eyes very much open. They know the job situation, so they are perhaps a more dedicated group." In addition to drawing on their own resources, universities are turning to foundations to help students financially. Starting this spring, the New York-based Mellon Foundation will provide fellowships of up to $7,000 for 100 graduate students in the humanities...
...most despairing group of economists today may be the Keynesians, who enjoyed prominence as the leading school of thought during the 1960s and '70s. They met their Waterloo in the late '70s, when their pump-priming policies pushed up inflation. Says Allan Meltzer, a Carnegie-Mellon University professor and an influential monetarist: "If the Keynesian program had worked, Jimmy Carter would still be President." Although many Keynesians now want to trim the deficit, the recession has emboldened others to call for continued high deficit spending. Says Lester Thurow, a leading Keynesian who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute...
MARRIED: Constance Mellon, 1970 (divorced, 1973); Pamela Braga, Sept. 24, 1976. CHILD: JOHN CARTER...
...cracking corporate security and filching financial secrets, inventing new games and playing them on military networks, inserting obscene jokes into other people's programs. In soberer versions that sort of skill will become a necessity in thousands of jobs opening up in the future. Beginning in 1986, Carnegie-Mellon University expects to require all of its students to have their own personal computers. "People are willing to spend a large amount of money to educate their children," says Author Fishman. "So they're all buying computers for Johnny to get a head start (though I have not heard anyone...