Word: professor
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...other economists Galbraith is active in politics--indeed, extremely active. He serves as chairman to the Advisory Committee on Economics of the Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee, worked quite closely with Stevenson during the past two presidential campaigns, and stands an ardent critic of Administration policies. "A professor's activity in public affairs is generally a matter of taste. I feel that politics brings some reality and balance into my world. I teach agricultural economics, and political interests form my bridge with the Middle West. I enjoy my occasional lectures there. Sometimes I have to see an angry...
...last half century, while speech has elsewhere become a much more formidable academic discipline, Harvard's original dislike for the "elocutionary movement" remains unchanged by contemporary circumstances. The current Boylston Professor, Archibald MacLeish, is a poet, a situation reflecting Harvard's current lack of interest in speech training. Even though Professor MacLeish has expressed his support for greater teaching of the speech arts, the University's speech training is conducted in a sadly limited manner...
...service in memory of the late Stefan Valavanis, assistant professor of Economics, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Memorial Chapel...
...most significant part of Wolfe's work at Harvard, however, was the plays he wrote for the 47 Workshop. His relationship with Professor Baker was quite close, and the eventual split with Baker when he left Harvard was the source of great anguish...
...Since his father's death had freed him from financial difficulties, and has formal classwork was finished, he could devote his entire mind and energy to the 47 Workshop. In the first two weeks after his return to Cambridge, Wolfe submitted the first acts of six projected plays to Professor Baker. At Baker's request he concentrated on one of these plays, which he had tentatively titled Niggertown. During the course of the winter he developed it into an unconventional ten scene form, and renamed it Welcome to Our City as a concession to the remaining vestiges of Cambridge abolutionism...