Word: wrighting
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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...
...Wright began teaching the navigation course in 1942 with Bart Bok, a specialist in Milky Way structure who iscurrently president of the American AstronomicalSociety. During World War II. Wright and Bok wereenlisted to teach crash courses at Harvard to U.S.Army personnel. "A class started on Monday andfinished three weeks later on Saturday. One ofthem told me later that he used everything wetaught him," Wright said...
Several of Wright's students have sailed orflown around the world using the techniques theylearned in Astronomy 2 or 9lr. One of them. JavierF. Araujo '85, came to Wednesday's reunion tovisit Wright, whom he says helped inspire him tomake a trans-Atlantic flight...
...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...
Whitney told the audience at the reunion, whichwas held at the Harvard Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics, that although he began teachingAstronomy 2 this semester, Wright "still comes toall the classes...