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...Berkshires that he and his wife bought a few years ago. “I have one book [about small hospitals] that I started writing 20 years ago,” Buck said. “I really do have ambitions to go back to being a serious scholar.” A new director of undergraduate studies has not yet been named. According to Buck, the incoming chair of the History of Science department, who will replace outgoing chair Allan M. Brandt at the end of the semester, will make the appointment. “I think the department...
...said Tina Chen, a senior studying international business at National Taiwan University. Chen said she was particularly impressed by Professor of Chinese History Michael J. Puett’s lecture on Eastern and Western philosophy. “It’s especially powerful when a Western scholar knows more about Confucius than maybe some people in China,” Chen said. The students’ time here, however, will not be limited to academic lessons. Later this week, the students will learn to swing dance, watch the Hasty Pudding show, and attend Cultural Rhythms.Visiting the campus has allowed...
...sitting room of his house, which has history seeping out of its pores—Mark Twain used to call it home, Shell tells me. Surrounded by antique furniture and walls covered in unique artwork, Shell certainly looks the part of the aristocratic scholar...
...same instincts that attracted her to the butterfly on the train, and made her forget all else, seem irreconcilable with the routine life that those at Imber lead. Dora has come to the Abbey as an outsider—she joins her husband Paul, a scholar who is investigating Imber’s medieval manuscripts. She has no innate religious tendencies...
Roberty is cagier regarding its content, to which Geographic owns rights. Photos of six pages supposedly from the tractate were sent several years ago to Charles Hedrick, a scholar with Missouri State University who has attempted to translate and analyze them. But Roberty claims Hedrick's efforts are flawed in that the first four pages actually hail from a different tract bound in the same leather cover. He volunteers that the Gospel's tone is not pugnacious--"whoever wrote it had no intention of provoking"--but "it will prove those people right who feel that there is more...