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...something for physics majors and Math 50-something for math majors,” he laughs, saying he quickly realized he wasn’t cut out for the work. Slamming his topology textbooks shut forever, Wolff went off to study music composition under Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus Leon Kirchner ’61. “It was the rigor of the musical training that attracted me [to composition],” Wolff says in a phone interview, citing Kirchner’s seminars as a highlight of his undergraduate career. But Wolff found the student-led recitals...
...peyote consumption.According to Halpern’s results, frequent peyote users did better on the cognitive exam than those who struggled with alcoholism, and even outperformed Navajos who were alcohol- and peyote-free.The study also revealed that frequent peyote use causes no long-term psychological damage.According to Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Lester Grinspoon, who specializes in the effects of psychotropic drugs, a typical sacrament ceremony entails encircling a campfire and swallowing peyote buttons.During the height of the ensuing hallucinations, generally after vomiting profusely, users perform a series of ritualistic songs and dances, culminating in a breakfast feast at sunrise...
...compete for what they want; it's that they're more selective about when they engage in competition; they're willing to get ahead at high cost but not at any cost. "Primate-wide, males are more directly competitive than females, and that makes sense," says Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. "But that's not the same as saying women aren't innately competitive...
Jerzy Soltan, an esteemed architect and the Robinson, Jr., professor of architecture and urban design, emeritus, at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), died on Sept. 16 at his Cambridge home. He was 92.Soltan first joined the GSD in 1959, when the dean at the time and another illustrious modernist, Josep Lluís Sert, invited him as a visiting critic. Two years later, he was appointed Professor of Architecture. He remained at the GSD in various guises until his death, educating and inspiring countless students with his Le Corbusier-influenced modernist vision and unique teaching style.Gerald M. McCue, John...
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Thomas J. C. Raymond, who taught at Harvard in various capacities for 55 years, died on Sept. 29. He was 88 years old. Raymond was a professor at HBS, Harvard College, and the Extension School, starting at HBS in 1950. There, he put his expertise in business communications to use in a compulsory course that gained notoriety amongst HBS graduates, “Written Analysis of Cases,” or “WAC,” as it was known for short. The course required first-year MBA students to submit biweekly...