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...Charles Mason, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1949, is working toward a Ph. D. in English literature at Stanford...
After graduating from Harvard. Womack went on to receive his Ph. D. in education here in 1963 and was hired as an instructor two years later. His area of expertise is modern Latin American history...
...remedial education has skyrocketed. Says Leon Mayhew, vice chancellor for the University of California at Davis: "There are costs in the generic sense of money spent. The other cost is in the misdirection of talents in teaching." While some remedial programs hire specially trained teachers, many untenured-and frustrated-Ph.D.s find themselves teaching basic reading and Algebra I rather than literature or calculus. Adds California State University Chancellor Glenn Dumke: "Either the state university will direct its energy to the full meaning of 'higher education' or its campuses will continue being made into centers of remediation...
...four Herriot books are bolts cut from the same Scottish tweed, carefully interweaving the local patois (Owt a gurt cow wi' nawbut a stone in t'kidney) and technical jargon ("You can get hypertrophy of the rumenal walls and inhibition of cellulose-digesting bacteria with a low pH"). Each volume has become increasingly formulaic. But it is Herriot's original formula, an unfailing blend of exotica-for The Lord God Made Them All, a recollection of trips to Russia and Turkey-and accounts of extraordinary happenings to ordinary people and creatures. Volume IV of the tetralogy offers...
...medical school when he wants to work in a lab? "I think medical school has more to offer than just teaching you to practice medicine. My education there will contribute to the type of researcher I am," he comments. As part of his MD-Ph.D program at Hopkins, Se-jin will be exempt from tuition in addition to receiving a $5,000 stipend each year...