Word: scholar
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...father was a respected Senator, and she was a respected figure in her own right. After obtaining a master's degree in ancient Greek, she taught Greek, literary theory and contemporary culture at the University of the Andes from 1976 to 1982. Students remember her as a brilliant scholar and a dedicated teacher. - During those years, Rosario hobnobbed with some of the region's greatest writers, among them Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Gretel Wernher, dean of the social-sciences department, characterizes Rosario's student years as "disciplined and responsible." Those qualities would be essential to helping Rosario and Ames...
...wondered how valuable this inside information would be, especially after learning that "top scholar" Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53 "couldn't keep up with the times," claiming that he didn't know if he should be referring to people such as myself as Negroes, Afro-Americans of African Americans...
...will practice the virtues and avoid thesnares of the scholar," Lowell wrote. "You will becourteous to your elders who have explored to thepoint from which you may now advance, and helpfulto your juniorswho will progress further by reason of yourlabors...
...best--in the nation. Through a string of faculty recruitments in recent years, the program has amassed an impressive array of academic all-stars. The department's chair, W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., is widely regarded as a top scholar in his field. And Gates deserves the lion's share of credit for the success of the program, using Harvard's resources and his own reputation to lure well-established professor from other universities to Cambridge. In light of the serious problems confronting many other African-American studies departments across the country--including...
...major plans that have been in the news were put forth by President Clinton and Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tennessee), another Rhodes Scholar but Harvard Law graduate. Other plans have made the rounds of the beltway, and aspects of plans have made the rounds of the beltway, and aspects of plans from Hawaii, other states and Canada have been considered. The Clinton and Cooper plans, however, have received the most broad-based support and appear to have the greatest chances of being enacted. But these plans have serious financial side effects that must be considered...