Word: professor
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Died. Cora C. Colburn, 72, culinary authority with the rank of professor, director of Yale University Dining Halls, where she fed 3,500 Yalemen daily at an average charge of 42? per Yaleman; of a heart attack in her office; in New Haven, Conn...
Last spring Harvard's faculty hoped for reform in Dr. Conant's hiring & firing policies when he adopted a "Magna Charta" drafted by a faculty committee (TIME, June 5). But their hopes were quickly dashed, for at term's end the University fired ten popular assistant professors, including Ernest Simmons, President of Harvard's Teachers Union, and Critic Theodore Spencer. (Professor Spencer thereupon landed a lifetime appointment at Cambridge University, was hired back by Harvard as visiting lecturer for a year...
...personality has spread. His imposing marches through the Yard, his witty mathematics classes, his total abstinence from the letter "r" along with his notable hospitality, have become as much a part of life here as John Harvard's statue or the elms in the Yard. We hope that Professor Coolidge, even after his retirement, will not make his absence too sharply felt by withdrawing completely from the scenes in which he has taken so great a part for so many years...
...middle men"--younger men with more than eight years of experience--bear by far the greatest burden of undergraduate teaching, since they give the most important courses and provide the most competent tutorial instruction. Under the old tenure plan, they might roughly have been classed as the assistant professors plus the associate professors. When the Committee of Eight proposed to abolish the rank of assistant professor, it was not proposing to reduce the middle group to that extent. Instead, it intended that this number be held constant, and that for every assistant professorship abolished, a new associate professorship should...
...star of the current Kaufman and Hart comedy studied under George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emerlins, when he was working for his M.A. degree from Harvard in 1913. He has never considered any other profession but the stage since then, he said...