Word: professor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life in a girls' school, Classics Professor Theodore Erck decided, is a lonely sort of existence. As one of 49 male teachers at Vassar College (enrollment: 1,370) in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., he had long felt a bit like the "sad and forlorn little fellow in the advertisement who is surrounded by hundreds of people, all reading the Bulletin except himself." Finally, in the current issue of the Vassar Alumnae Magazine, 42-year-old Professor Erck told more...
Coping with female students, he reported, could be literally overwhelming. "When [a professor] meets them coming down the sidewalk toward him three abreast, they refuse to break rank and simply push him off into the grass . . . They invariably park their bicycles right in front of the door or the steps and let you fall over them as you come out. If you survive that, they ride down upon you from the rear as silently as Indians...
Along University Avenue at the University of Southern California one afternoon last week, some 100 students huddled in the rain, waiting for the voice that would soon come through the loudspeaker. Inside Bovard Auditorium, 1,500 more waited in their seats. Finally, Professor Frank C. Baxter, dressed in a 20-year-old dark blue suit, mounted the podium and took his place behind a-lectern piled with books. As the murmuring and chattering stopped, the professor began to read...
Today, at 53, Baxter gets embarrassed when students speak of him as their favorite professor. "I don't want them to be aware of me," he insists. "It's the subject they're learning, not the professor." Keeping them unaware of their professor was one of few things in which he had failed. Like Shakespeare, Frank Baxter was one of the experiences at U.S.C...
...hand that leveled an accusing finger at the S.R.L. looked as if it held a fat blue pencil of its own. Last October, the Nation had commissioned Yale Law Professor Fred Rodell to write an article on the U.S. Supreme Court. Harold C. Field, executive editor of the Nation, told Rodell he was delighted with it. But later he said that he and Freda Kirchwey, Nation editor & publisher, wanted a few changes made, notably in Rodell's criticisms of Justice Frankfurter...