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Oxford University denied Lewis a professorship because his popular writings were deemed unseemly-as, indeed, was his outspoken Christianity. (He moved to a chair at Cambridge late in his career.) But Lewis has survived Oxford's judgment handsomely. Sales of Lewis' works in Britain and the U.S. have increased sixfold since his death, and this year readers in both countries will take home more than 2 million Lewis volumes. Says Lady Priscilla Collins, one of Lewis' publishers in Britain: "The trend...
...truth and the employment of people with degrees in Asian studies. If only Harvard fundraisers had the diplomatic skills of Fletcher fundraisers, might we not similarly be blessed with a John Vorster Chair of Race Relations, a Kim Il Sung Chair of International Peace, or a Pol Pot Professorship of Population Policy and Kampuchean History? Len Leverson...
...chair will not be filled for at least ten years because nobody is currently qualified to fill a professorship in Korean Studies, Dwight Perkins, chairman of the Department of Economics and director of the chair, said earlier this year...
...American Letters, Edel is now teaching in a post-retirement position at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. But he journeyed to Dartmouth for the summer session, a regular academic term in the college's new full-year calendar, for a special purpose: to inaugurate the Vernon Visiting Professorship of Biography, the only chair in the country devoted exclusively to biography. TIME Education Editor Annalyn Swan attended the class and reported...
When contacted twice in the past week, Nelson, who is supposed to receive his Ph.D. this June and who recently signed a two-year assistant professorship contract with Claremont Men's College in Pomona, Calif., first denied the book theft allegations saying, "No, No I don't know anything about that," and last night refused to speak to the Crimson...