Word: scholar
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...does Christoph Wolff, Mason professor of music and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, considered by many to be the pre-eminent scholar of J.S. Bach and the Bach family alive today. "If students really want to experience and learn about the music of Bach," he says, "there is no better way than going to Emmanuel on Sundays. It will put them in touch with another world." Wolff praises Emmanuel for its diligent study of Bach, whom he says paved the path for composers all the way through the modern age. "Bach showed us that...
...running through my warm memories of Professor Price, I am struck by the fact that when one considers the qualities of the ideal Harvard professor, one has invariably described the very nature of the late H. Douglas Price. Professor Price was a thorough scholar, a thoughtful mentor, a patient teacher, a sterling role model and a compassionate friend. He authored groundbreaking scholarship in the field of American political participation which has been cited in academic journals for decades. Yet he also placed a high priority on close contact with undergraduate students...
Jaffe, a leading scholar of administrative law and a renowned New Deal attorney, died of natural causes at a nursing home in Norwood, Mass...
...founding father of administrative law," said Rosa Comella, a Harvard law student. "He was--still is--the most important administrative law scholar in the country...
...former roommate of Wei's recalled that the new Rhodes Scholar was always an organized student who nevertheless made a point of putting people first...