Word: professor
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Prominent teaching institutions have given hospitalized patients this right since the suit that led to the recent decision was filed in April, 1975, Thomas G. Gutheil, acting director of the adult in-patient services at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, said yesterday...
Harvard's first year was a calamitous one. Its first professor, Nathanial Eaton--who taught all 20 students by himself--was later convicted in General Court for "cruell and barbaros beating" of students. He tearfully repented, but the court recalled that he had beaten one student nearly to death and discharged...
...attendance records of some faculty members are more shameful than others. Alfred Crompton, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and a CUE member last year, appeared once or twice at the beginning of the year, then mysteriously vanished. "Professor Crompton never came to any of the meetings, and then he shot down one of our proposals--tutorial legislation--at the Faculty Council meeting," Henderson recollects. Crompton concedes he went to "singularly few" CUE meetings, explaining he was otherwise engaged "with an enormous number of commitments." (He added he did not recall specifically the debate on tutorial reform. "Is that...
Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology and CUE member, says he went to CUE meetings last year, when "there wasn't a stronger priority." Consequently, Herrnstein attended "occasionally," Henderson notes...
Most of the time the Faculty Council has already decided, Brown explains, and CUE approval is "just a formality." Heather McClave, professor of English and former CUE member, criticizes the students' fatalistic attitude, claiming they may in some cases push their ideas through, though the process is "an uphill battle...