The students had invited Emerson to speak; the faculty ensured that he would not do so again for almost three decades. The Divinity School Address marks an entry in the record of American Antinomianism, a concept that dates back to Martin Luther, but is here most commonly traced to the ...
(see belowTeaching), the requirement that students complete three years of training, and the use of a full-time faculty of scholars, rather than a part-time faculty of practicing lawyers as had previously been the case. As the number of law schools grew, so too did the proportion of the...
A group of masters in the faculty of arts at Paris welcomed Aristotle’s philosophy and taught it in disregard of its possible opposition to the Christian faith. They wanted to be philosophers, not theologians, and to them this meant following the Aristotelian system. Because Averroës was the...
and the university reflects that diversity. Many historians hired decades ago qualified in an age when European history dominated the curriculum. Despite very active recruitment efforts and aggressive faculty renewal plans, this legacy remains – I am part of it...
When she joined the UMass faculty eight years ago, she envisioned using that legal experience to “demystify the law for students, empower them to be engaged citizens and even inspire a few of them to pursue careers in public interest law.” For Nye, this vision, and the very act of ...
Faculty members, most of whom earned their Ph.D. degrees from other universities, don the academic garb of their alma maters. College maces, symbols of authority first seen in the 13th century graduation processions of Oxford and Cambridge, are carried at UT’s commencement. For each school...
Faculty members, most of whom earned their Ph.D. degrees from other universities, don the academic garb of their alma maters. College maces, symbols of authority first seen in the 13th century graduation processions of Oxford and Cambridge, are carried at UT’s commencement. For each school...
Big pharmaceutical companies and the Money Power are, of course, closely related and their corruption of science based medicine and academic history bear striking similarities. They have extensive ties to senior faculty at prestigious universities where they fund departmental professorial chairs. They comp...
Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.Siegert, Bernhard. 1999. Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System. Trans-lated by Kevin Repp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.—. 2015. Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real. Translated by Geof ...
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