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...does Christoph Wolff, Mason professor of music and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, considered by many to be the pre-eminent scholar of J.S. Bach and the Bach family alive today. "If students really want to experience and learn about the music of Bach," he says, "there is no better way than going to Emmanuel on Sundays. It will put them in touch with another world." Wolff praises Emmanuel for its diligent study of Bach, whom he says paved the path for composers all the way through the modern age. "Bach showed us that...
...former roommate of Wei's recalled that the new Rhodes Scholar was always an organized student who nevertheless made a point of putting people first...
Price was an American government scholar specializing in post-New Deal voting patterns...
Contrary to what Mr. Hicks implies in the American Scholar, boarding schools do not exist as holding grounds for uncooperative and malfunctioning adolescents. Dauber argues, "Sure, if adolescents are really awful, then maybe, just maybe, Hicks' beloved boarding schools have some reason for sticking around." But Dauber seems to believe that Hicks represents some common view of boarding schools' purpose. Make no mistake: Hicks is alone in his quest for a reactionary schools; it should be noted that after four years of battling students, faculty and the trustees, Mr. Hicks realized he could not bring St. Paul's back...
Although tenure decisions are assumed to take into account a scholar's teaching abilities as well as publications and research, undergraduate opinions on a professor's teaching are widely felt to have little effect on the tenure process...