Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their commitments with money. Chronically underpaid and overworked, the teachers who take up this cross find themselves scuttling from college to college, sometimes working at two or more jobs at once. For men and women who have put years into getting an advanced degree, the life of an itinerant scholar often comes as a bitter pill. Many of them are trying to make a name for themselves as writers, which means they are doubly prone to disappointment...
Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka and President Neil L. Rudenstine all praised W.E.B. Du Bois yesterday in what speakers said was a long overdue recognition of the pioneering scholar...
...Harvard Divinity School and Afro-American Studies Department have offered tenure to Cornel West '74, a prominent Princeton African-American studies scholar, according to Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...
...never read any Toni Morrison, and you must never tell anyone that." The statement wasn't made off the record, but we thought we'd give the scholar a break...
...scholar acknowledged that Western culture and history have long been informed by prejudice. As a result, he said, American college students must learn about the accomplishments of all societies...