Word: professor
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...violation, though not large, is more than a technicality. By holding the unit, Harvard prevented any possibility that the home would go on the open market, where the hundreds of Cantabrigians in need of housing would have had a chance at the property. It also allowed the professor to buy the condo at a far lower interest rate than that available to area residents...
Last month, Harvard Real Estate, the University's property management arm, bought a condominium from one faculty member so that another professor could buy it days later. In so doing, Harvard breeched its 1975 promise not to purchase real estate outside its own self-imposed boundaries and revealed its unfortunate willingness to sacrifice its credibility with the Cambridge community for small, short lived gains...
...committee members--C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law; David Donald, Warren Professor of American History; Richard Freeman, professor of Economics; Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology; and Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and Music--will work first on developing a clear intellectual goal for the department, Ferguson says. Once the committee has agreed on what the intellectual thrust of the department should be--whether policy-oriented or primarily academic, for example--then the committee will find it easier to seek out scholars. "Getting a focus begins to tell you who you want, why you want them...
After a year of study, a faculty-student committee chaired by Rosovsky, then professor of Economics, recommended setting up an interdisciplinary concentration that would combine a traditional field such as history or economics with Afro-American Studies. But after the student strike, pressure mounted to create a full-fledged department that would permit an uncombined major and allow students unprecedented governing powers. Although Rosovsky vehemently protested this proposal, the Faculty voted for a department in an emotionally-charged meeting in April...
Ralph Dougherty, professor of chemistry at Florida State University, told the American Chemical Society's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. that his experiments showed 23 per cent of 132 college student volunteers were functionally sterile...