Word: pippin
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University of Chicago Professor Robert B. Pippin, like Benhabib, is considered one of the country's foremost experts on European continental writers-and was offered a tenured post at Harvard last year but declined it, mostly for personal reasons. He says course offerings account for much of the difference between Chicago's programs on German writers and Harvard...
Though he admits to a certain pro-Chicago bias, Pippin insists that Chicago's course offerings make its program superior...
...Virtually all I do is senior recruiting," says Pippin, the Chicago professor who directs that school's prestigious Committee on Social Thought. "It's a very difficult task these days...
Both he and Pippin say family considerations, such as finding a job for a professor's spouse, are increasingly important. Hoffmann, the Harvard department veteran, adds Cambridge's unique brand of weather to the list...