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Asked to describe the professor's role in University life, Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, paused for a full minute and then said, "The easy answer is that a professor's first task is teaching. That sounds good, but it is really oversimplified. Harvard tries to have outstanding people in every field, and in all fields people who are doing outstanding work are not just going to want to teach...
Teevens worked his Jack Mildren magic and ran for most of the yardage in Dartmouth's 74-yard scoring drive for the game's first tally, a one-yard run by Greg Jenkins. Fumble recoveries by Dave Otto and Matt Sabetti, and a diving interception by cornerback Fred Cordova then stalemated the Woodsmen's first half offense...
...idea of what she wants to do with her career. She has just finished playing Anne, the youngest Bronte, in Andre Techine's The Bronte Sisters. She prefers directors who let actors work out their own interpretations. This list includes Goretta and Chabrol but not the notoriously tyrannical Otto Preminger, for whom she played a part in Rosebud, his not very successful film of a few years ago. "He yelled so much," she recalls...
...bought by stay-at-homes too. Deak reports that its sales of foreign-currency traveler's checks have doubled in the past year and estimates that 25% of the purchases are pure speculation. Nor is it only a poor man's game. Executive Vice President Otto E. Roethenmund recalls one customer who bought between $50,000 and $100,000 worth of Swiss franc checks early in the summer - candidly telling the staff that he had no intention of going to Switzerland. Says Roethenmund: "To my knowledge the gentleman still owns them, so he has an appreciation...
...Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and chief lecturer in Ec 10, credited the nation's poor economic health with spurring this latest surge of interest in the course. "When the economy is going bad, our enrollment jumps," he said...