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...from Harvard, Brinton won a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University, from which he graduated with a Ph.D. in History in 1923. Brinton then returned to Harvard to become an instructor and tutor in History. He was appointed Associate Professor in 1932. Ten years later he received a full Professorship...
...blisters on his knuckles, but a fellow studio pianist, Andre Previn, showed him how to play them with a comb. Meanwhile, Powell pursued his studies in serious music. In 1948 he moved east to study composition with Paul Hindemith at Yale. By 1958, when he was offered a professorship, he was already noted as a deft, if sometimes perplexing, composer for conventional instruments. His final step into machine-made sounds was only logical: many of his ideas became too difficult for humans to play...
...hundreds of public school systems in the United States. A more recent gift by Gutman has enabled Oliver to undertake a new project involving the study of communication processes by high school students. Mr. Gutman has also established the Monroe C. Gutman National Scholarships and the Monroe Gutman Professorship of Latin-American Affairs, both in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
This change is largely a semantic one, made necessary by the unwillingness of young potential Faculty to accept an instructorship at Harvard when they can get an assistant professorship anywhere else...
...title of Instructor and raising salaries in this range. The Dunlop Committee recommendations (if adopted) won't make it any easier for junior faculty to win tenure, but they should make Harvard more attractive to those who are here only for a few years. The road to full professorship will still in most cases be eight years long--with associate professors reduced to something like the 50-50 chance for tenure the Committee of Eight envisioned for assistant professors. Those who leave after three-or five-year terms as assistant professors will be able to use the more prestigious title...