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...this option early on, black students will not see graduate school as a viable option.” Eze said she is hopeful for a future increase in the number of blacks in economics. “The generation of professors right now are people who were in college ten, twenty years ago or longer. You hope that there will be more black graduate students in economics in the future because there are now more undergrads studying economics...
...genuine intellectual.” As director of undergraduate studies, Buck’s central responsibilities were supervising the tutorial program and advising undergraduates. Buck first began teaching as a junior faculty member at Harvard in 1966. He left the University to teach for ten years at MIT, but returned to Harvard in 1987 when he was appointed dean of the summer school and became a member of the History of Science department. Buck said the department only included three faculty members, 30 undergraduates, and 20 graduate students when he first joined. Today, the numbers have risen to more than...
...although I’m not using Duchamp, because my class is specifically about music. But I use John Cage. Cage was enamoured of Duchamp and his work, and they played chess together every day.” To many of us, the return to academia after a ten-year stint as a freewheeling musician might seem incongruous. And indeed, although Krukowski looks back with fondness at his time at Harvard, he freely admits that, as a graduate student, he disliked the teaching. Yet, it only takes a few minutes of conversation to see his genuine enthusiasm for art?...
...delight of a lover and practitioner of music. Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music Ingrid Monson did not begin her life expecting to have such a prodigious title, or indeed with any expectations about a life in academia. Monson loved music and was playing the trumpet by age ten, though her youthful training did not always teach the most hopeful lessons. She reflects ruefully, “I was pretty good, but when you play the trumpet, you quickly learn that the masterworks of Western music are not for the trumpet.” Monson soon found that...
...experience, he’s calm, he’s balanced,” Dershowitz said. “I only wish he was 55 years old and could serve out the next ten years...