Word: taught
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...suspect as a relatively painless way to give a Harvard gloss to an undergraduate degree from a land-grant college and for its networking possibilities. Says a participant: "Where else can a former mayor from Waco, Texas, sit around and chat with former Governors and Senators and attend classes taught by Presidential Scholar Richard Neustadt?" Even government officials seek the school's cachet: a staffer jokes that he heard of a visitor who spoke at a lunch and immediately added "Lecturer, Harvard University, Fall Semester" to his resume...
Abdul Rahman, 45, a professor of Arabic literature at Hebron University, has not taught since December. He worries about his children, who have no school to attend, and spends hours searching for food. "You've got to know who's selling to buy," says Rahman, who has learned to visit butchers and grocers at their homes, where many of them now secretly keep their scarce supplies...
...editor of Story magazine; Elizabeth Murray, a friend; Judge Learned Hand, a New England neighbor; and Hamish Hamilton and Roger Machell, the author's British publishers. The young Salinger was full of strong opinions and pithy wisecracks. His view of U.S. publishing: "Everybody over here who's ever taught Senior English for a couple of semesters, or worked for a good upholsterer, has considered himself qualified to collect and edit a short story anthology...
More than half the seminars are taught by Medical School faculty, a fact Lewis attributes to a desire on the part of those professors to "combine research and teaching...
...These students take the course because they're interested in it. Medical students take biochemistry, which I also teach, by and large because they have to," says Andelot Professor of Biological Chemistry, Emeritus, Claude A. Vilee Jr. who has taught Winthrop 112, "Reproduction, Fertility Control, and Human Welfare," for 10 years...