Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just a banquet; it was "one of the landmarks of the pre-World War I era." That is the thesis of Author Roger Shattuck, Fulbright scholar and assistant professor of Romance languages at the University of Texas. In his breathlessly complicated period study, Shattuck takes as true a highly debatable line written in 1913 by Poet Charles Péguy-"The world has changed less since Jesus Christ than it has in the last thirty years"-and discusses the nature of the change as expressed in French art. Author Shattuck has chosen four French men of the arts to exemplify...
...individual tutorial. This consists of a weekly or fortnightly meeting with his tutor, when the two discuss the reading assigned by the tutor, or perhaps discuss a paper the student has written. Obviously informal, these meetings often develop into friendships between student and tutor (who may be a distinguished professor) which far outlast one's undergraduate career...
Albert Guerard is a Harvard English professor, and those of us who listened to his tales of Gide and watched Conrad on the psychoanalytic couch may well contend that his place is at the podium, as a critic. Anthony might be a spectator at his own doom, but like most heroes in the Age of the Common Man, he is more tedious than tragic...
...Soviet Union is totally committed to education, said Herold C. Hunt, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, speaking on "Education in the USSR" in the Thursday afternoon Lecture Series...
...final speaker of the European group was Seamus O'Neill, professor at Dublin University, Ireland, who argued that modern poetry in Ireland has flourished even since the death of W.B. Yeats...