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...rest of his class returned to Cambridge that fall, John set himself up in a cabin 50 miles east of Fairbanks, Alaska, and began life alone as a trapper, using the skills his father had taught him as a child. Every day he would rise, strap on his pack and set out to check his traps for whatever they might yield--martens, wolverines, lynx and the like. Subsisting primarily on flour pancakes and the occasional moose or caribou steak, he was prepared to trap through the end of the trapping season in February...
...inferior poems. The facts largely argue against this mythology, and the accomplishments of Richard Wilbur, 67, make it look silly. For more than 40 years, Wilbur has written poetry that garnered both critical acclaim and public recognition, including a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. He has taught at Harvard, Wellesley, Wesleyan and Smith, and generously given foreign authors an English-speaking readership, translating works by, among others, Anna Akhmatova, Jorge Luis Borges, Andrei Voznesensky and Joseph Brodsky. His words have been sung on Broadway, set to Leonard Bernstein's score in the musical Candide (1956). And last fall...
Until last year, Field was listed in the course catalog as the official professor of the course, Astronomy 2, although it was actually Wright who taught the course. Wright was listed in the catalog as conducting laboratory sessions...
Even before reaching retirement age, Wright was permitted to teach under special conditions. "She never became a professor. Special considerations had to be taken...and she taught her course as a 91r," Field said. Astronomy 91r is the department's supervised reading and research course...
...course puts you in touch with the world ina way very few courses do," said AstronomyProfessor Charles A. Whitney, who has taught thecourse since Wright's retirement. "It's not justdoing calculations but gives you the feeling thatyou live in a spherical earth...