Word: professional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"By the time I left here, I was disillusioned with the movement," says Harrision. "Now I'm involved in more indirect ways. The times have changed and social change is not likely to be brought about in those ways. That period represented a window in American history. It's not...
Ellen Havdala '88, an undergraduate teachingfellow for Science A-30 last fall, says herexperience has led her to consider teaching as apossible profession. "I had never consideredacademics. But now, 10 or 15 years down the road,I could see myself as a teacher...Being a TFreally gives you a sense...
Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language Helen H. Vendler, who is working to increase minority interest in graduate schools, says Harvard has a well-qualified body of minority undergraduates but needs to persuade them to go into academia. In the past, universities have been reluctant to encourage...
Savoye attributed the rise in Stanford applications to the same factors, saying, "L.A. Law, [the stock market crash on] October 19 and all of the interest in the Bork and Ginsburg [Supreme Court confirmation] hearings made students more interested in the legal profession."
Wolfe shows in his accurate, yet broad brushed treatment of the city that people's lives have a logic dictated by their birth and their profession. Whether a Loman or a McCoy, you still have to get your foot into the door. Yet, for their origins alone, a Loman and...