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...Durantaye taught a class on the post-World War II novel and a seminar on Vladimir Nabokov. While writing his dissertation at Cornell, de la Durantaye had become fascinated by the author’s “thoroughgoing independence of mind.” What began as a mere chapter devoted to Nabokov became the whole dissertation...
...Durantaye taught a class on the post-World War II novel and a seminar on Vladimir Nabokov. While writing his dissertation at Cornell, de la Durantaye had become fascinated by the author’s “thoroughgoing independence of mind.” What began as a mere chapter devoted to Nabokov became the whole dissertation...
...beyond mere numbers, testimonials from Professor Hoxby’s students speak volumes. A great lecturer and discussion leader, students say she makes an effort to go behind the facts to teach students how to analyze and synthesize data, research, and concepts. She also relishes student interaction and encourages students to do original and publishable research projects at the cutting edges of the field. One student said that what is so remarkable about Professor Hoxby is that she teaches with the intention of making a difference, enabling her students to “address [educational] problems and fix them, whether...
...Brolsma and for Ciarelli both, the Internet has been much like the Harvard tenure process: a ruthless and uncaring judge. It distributes great fortune in a way that to the eyes of mere mortals often looks plain capricious. I don’t know whether the tenure process is blind to identity—to lineage or gender or whatever—but the Internet most certainly is: on the net, somebody could be anyone, and it’s almost impossible to expose false claims of persona. And that means, among other things, that on the Internet, anyone?...
...Crimson, led by Zingale, Bailey, and sophomores Patrick Morrissey and Alex Paddington, needed to place high in the relay to secure third overall. The team did just that, capturing third with a time of 3:06.19. Harvard, with a point total of 341.5, edged Seton Hall University by a mere 1.5 points and Johns Hopkins by 3.5 points...