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Thirty years ago, most every department was dominated by senior faculty who received their Ph.D.s from Harvard. And a significant portion of those scholars attended the College as well. Maier remembers that as a graduate student at the University in the late 1960s, the ranks of the senior faculty were filled from a network of former Harvard students. "People would place their Ph.D. candidates by calling up colleagues at other universities and asking if they had a position," says Maier...
Most women in the Math Department are preceptors, responsible for teaching and administrating the general calculus classes. Outside of training mathematicians, the department offers general math courses for students in other concentrations who need to take them to fill requirements. These courses represent a large portion of the department's activity, according to Schmid...
...disarm the Georgian National Guard. Gamsakhurdia dismisses the charge as the work of "common liars who want to slander me." But the fact remains that soon after the coup was set in motion, he ordered the National Guard into the countryside, supposedly on a training exercise. A large portion of the 15,000-strong guard ignored the order and holed up on a mountainside. Gamsakhurdia now maintains that the order was given to protect the guards from an impending attack by the Soviet "occupational" army, but the deserters have yet to return...
...Room of One's Own is divided into clearly defined halves. The first portion is basically orchestrated wandering, lacking any real theme. Woolf flits from one topic to another, pausing at length to discuss Fanny Burney and the Brontes, the laws which forbade women to own property and the women's college at Cambridge University...
...annoyingly sappy subplot between Sullivan and her mother Bea (Barbara Orson) clogs the plot, but Sterner wisely devotes only a small portion of the play to it. And, although Other People's Money contains several preachy speeches in the second act, Sterner's restores some credibility with a cynical denouement...