Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laboratory, he is likely to be repaid almost as scantily in prestige as he is in pork chops. In fact, he is lucky if he is not stereotyped as "a bumbling, woolly-minded theorist, somewhat timid, thoroughly impractical, unfit for any other occupation." So says Harold Seymour, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Manhattan's Finch College, who deplores the low self-esteem of the scholars of high degree. His remedy, proposed in the Educational Record: henceforth, all Ph.D.s should insist that they be addressed as "Doctor." Writes Dr. Seymour: "The title 'Doctor' commands special respect among...
Alfred, an assistant professor of English, read the prologue and first act of his unpublished verse play, Hogan's Ghost...
Edward M. Purcell was appointed this week as the first Donner Professor of Science at Harvard. Currently serving on President Eisenhower's Scientific Advisory Committee, Purcell received the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in nuclear magnetism...
Stephen Marshall Cohen, this year's Lowell Lecturer in Boston, was appointed to an assistant professorship in Philosophy, and John Charles Nelson, an instructor in Italian here since 1957, has been made an assistant professor...
Comedy of Manners. Author Barth is assistant professor of English at Penn State and, unlike most teachers of English, he likes words well enough to play with them after school. His first novel, The Floating Opera, was runner-up for the 1957 National Book Award in fiction. Now The End of the Road reveals him as a very funny (but notably unfrivolous) writer...