Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Southern, who will be at Harvard Monday to teach Afro-American Studies 135a, "History of Afro-American Music," said yesterday she had not yet heard whether the University had granted her tenure...
...months ago things were looking pretty grim for Walter Hesford, a graduate student in American literature who'd just finished up a 516-page thesis on Thoreau. Hesford had started looking for a teaching job almost two years before, but so far almost 100 letters to schools as far away as Nigeria had managed to turn up only a thick stack of rejections. The months dragged on, and Hesford conscientiously saved his rejection letters, took to drinking paper cupfuls of Mogen David wine during undergraduate tutorials and waited for Commencement. Then came a break--an offer from Birzelt College...
Activity scheduled for this year includes locating an assistant professor to teach Gov 124, "The Supreme Court," and searching for someone to replace Stephen D. Krasner, an assistant professor in international relations who is leaving after the fall term. Mansfield said the department may also find itself with a new chair in Japanese politics, as some of the money the Japanese government has given Harvard will probably be used for that purpose...
Doctorow is equally blunt about his own future: "I don't want to teach at a small college. I don't want to end up at some third-rate place in Mauritania." With a shortage of acceptable teaching jobs, however, Doctorow is understandably grateful to the center: it occasionally provides paper and shelter for young, unemployed scholars...
...dominant modern psychologies," he declared, "are individualistically hedonistic, explaining all human behavior in terms of individual pleasure and pain, individual needs and drives." They not only describe man as selfishly motivated, but "implicitly or explicitly teach that he ought to be so." Campbell called on psychologists to broaden "our narrowly individualistic focus" and to begin studying social systems with the assumption of "an underlying wisdom in the recipes for living that tradition has supplied us." They might, he said, be "better tested than the best of psychology's and psychiatry's speculations on how lives should be lived...