Word: vendler
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...Vendler and Mansfield--who were able to select the participants in their respective seminars--themselves had to apply to the program. In turn, the Endowment paid Harvard enough money to cover the professors' summer salaries and to compensate for the use of University facilities...
...high school teachers who attended seminars this summer, 35 of them studied at Harvard under Professor of American and English Literature Helen H. Vendler, who taught a group on lyrie poetry, and Professor of Government, Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., who led a seminar entitled "The American Experiment...
...limited number of the most brilliant young men that can be found." These junior fellows would exchange ideas under the guidance of eminent scholars, called senior fellows, without the restrictions of graduate school or the formal dictates of a Ph.D. program. Among the eleven current senior fellows: Poet Helen Vendler, Harvard Dean Henry Rosovsky and Derek Bok, the university's president...
Morton W. Bloomfield, Porter Professor of English, cited the recent appointments of Marjorie Garber, professor of English, Barbara Lewalski, professor of History and Literature; and Helen Vendler, visiting professor of English and American Literature, along with the tenuring of Bercovich...
Taking this concern to its logical extreme several professors say applause fosters an unhealthy atmosphere in the classroom. Professors Helen Vendler, John Stilgoe and David Donald all ask students not to clap after class. "Applause signifies a performance," says Vendler. "It turns too much into a television show. There are a certain number of things not present in a performance that are present in a lecture. Some days I might not be entertaining," she adds. "We might be puzzling over a single word...