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5 total sentences available.
A satirical work, published in 1721, speaks of the chairs which were allowed to exist as habitually filled by persons utterly incompetent; and though we cannot tell how far to believe its details, something of the kind must be supposed to have taken place in order to account for the discredit into which the Professoriate fell, and from which it can scarcely be said to have recovered.
Source: wiktionary
[…] at that moment the whole professoriate was absorbed in one of those great educational crises which from time to time shake a university to its base.
Source: wiktionary
Technological Change and Professional Control in the Professoriate.
Source: wiktionary
Did these interactions, taken as a whole, reinforce Kennedy’s willingness to reach liberal outcomes in a series of high-profile cases? No less a judge of character than his colleague Scalia thought so, hinting in writing that Kennedy’s leftward bent came from a desire to please the professoriate.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.
Closest matches include chair, faculty, fellowship, tutelage, tutorship.
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