Word: parkman
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...sooner had the first motley pioneers lit out for the American West than they were followed by a band of nosy fellows with notebooks. Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America) was among the earliest, in the 1830s. Francis Parkman (The Oregon Trail) packed his saddlebags a few years later. By the mid-20th century, when Bernard De Voto wrote Across the Wide Missouri, traffic on Western highways was clogging up with authors in vans, their kids and stalled novels left back home with parents...
Most other faculty also sympathized withThiemann's plan. "It's important to turn thingsaround and overcome this bifurcation" of religiousscholarship, said Parkman Professor of DivinityJohn B. Carman, who served as the school's actingdean before Thiemann took over...
...plan to talk at a level that someone with a Harvard education would know what's going on," says Parkman Professor of Divinity John B. Carman, who will run a symposium today about interaction between major religious groups...
...More of our members would like to live here than we have room for," said John Carman, the center's director who is also the Parkman Professor of Divinity. "We would like to increase the number of visiting professors and get funds to endow teaching positions...
...Henry Parkman Biggs...