Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essay is clear: "There is a dearth of self-propelled students in the local environment." Or, in other words, we are all too "other-directed" for our own good. "Other-directed," that is, to the point of being individually original, which, in the words of at least one professor in the community, is "a seeming paradox...
Faculty members conducting the study include Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology; I. Bernard Cohen '37, professor of the History of Science; Carl Kaysen, professor of Economics; and Don K. Price, Jr. Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration. J. Stefan Dupre, instructor in Government, and William E. Gustafson, teaching fellow in Economics, are also on the staff...
...physical way, he threw himself into school-work with burning enthusiasm, getting top marks in all his subjects. Not eager to let him get too far away, his parents sent him to Iowa Wesleyan, a small college right in Mount Pleasant. There he quickly attracted the attention of Professor Thomas Poulter, a first-class physicist...
Working eagerly with Professor Poulter, Jim tracked meteors, made a magnetic survey of Mount Pleasant, and measured cosmic rays at ground level. He moved on to the State University of Iowa in nearby Iowa City, to do post-graduate work in nuclear physics. In 1939 he got a job with the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
That the forces striving to make a great big fool of American man have struck a winning streak is the contention of Jacques Barzun, a Columbia University professor who would like very much to nag at the U.S. conscience if he knew where to look for it. It is not at the U.S. as such that Barzun fires his bullets; it is at the modern world at large-"egalitarian democracy, mass education and journalism, the cult of art and philanthropy, and the manners coincident with these...