Education: Where Are the Professors?

At Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration last week, students in Economics 169 and 287 ran into a growing problem: the absent professor. David Elliott Bell had left abruptly to grapple with the U.S. budget; the same school's Economist Edward S. Mason was off surveying the economy of Uganda. Other Harvard absentees: Government Professor Arthur A. Maass (studying the water laws of Spain), Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (lecturing on the West Coast), Government Professor Carl Friedrich (at a Texas seminar on Hegel) and Economist John T. Dunlop (mediating for the construction industry). Students...

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