Word: professors
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...Hair of the Dogma keeps the play from sinking into tedium. The ancillary characters certainly enliven it: the professor rants about the nature of atomic particles and the propensity for human beings to turn into bicycles, and the Irish lad spins yarns of the miraculous healing powers of his brother...
...almost accidentally, Clay discovers he feels most complete while studying literature with his professor and friend Johnny Hyde. Literature plays such an important role in Clay's life--both at Princeton and outside the academy--that The Final Club at times takes on the quality of meta-fiction. Clay and Hyde debate the implications of Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby: Can a person be complete depending only on dreams? What happens when people's dreams eclipse their lives? Do the fictionalized tales we tell--and believe--about ourselves matter more than the actual truth...
Every first-year student has heard the stories of lectures no more difficult than listening to a piano recital a few days a week, a literature class which shows the film "Robocop" in order to underscore some of the major themes of the course, and a professor who actually takes his students to a brewery on field trips...
Gregory Nagy, Jones professor of Classical Greek Literature and professor of Comparative Literature, claims that the course's lingering reputation as a gut may surprise students once they have enrolled. Starting last year, Nagy beefed up the course requirements, and the one-time gut may never be the same...
...Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox says he too has overhauled the structure of his popular course Moral Reasoning 30: "Jesus and the Moral Life," working on the theory that increasing the number of assignments will help students learn better...