Word Finder - lecturers

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A person who gives lectures, especially as a profession.

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A member of a university or college below the rank of assistant professor or reader.

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A member of the Church of England clergy whose main task was to deliver sermons (lectures) in the afternoons and evenings.

The Lowell Institute, established in 1839 (by John Lowell, Jr., who bequeathed $237,000 for the purpose), provides yearly courses of free public lectures, and its lecturers have included many of the leading scholars of America and Europe.

The chief of the lecturers, called the Sheik el-Azhar, receives about £zoo a year, the others little or nothing, as regular pay.

Although for a long time lecturers and professors had been attached to universities, generally their duties had also included the study of physics, mineralogy and other subjects, with the result that chemistry received scanty encouragement.

After the university had settled its quarrels these continued to teach, and soon became formidable rivals of the secular lecturers.

Since 1871 the language of instruction has been Polish, and in 1901 the university had 110 lecturers, and was attended by 2060 students.

But as early as 1549 Cranmer had in hand " Articles of Religion " to which he required all preachers and lecturers to subscribe.

Amongst his fellow lecturers were Moses Amyraut and Josue de la Place.

The Puritan lecturers were suppressed.

It had in 1901 a teaching staff of 161 professors and lecturers, and 1652 students, including many Italians from the Kiistenland and Dalmatia.

The Jagellonian university, now housed in a magnificent Gothic building erected in 1881-1887, was attended in 1901 by 1255 students, and had 175 professors and lecturers.

The Francis Joseph University, also opened in 1875, had 50 lecturers and over 500 students in 1901.

The court of each university is the supreme authority in regard to finance, discipline, and the regulation of the duties of professors and lecturers.

At the head of its educational institutions stands the university, which was attended in 1900 by 4983 students - only about 2000 in 1880 - and has a staff of nearly 200 professors and lecturers.

In 1805, when several lecturers left in consequence of diminished classes, he had written to Johann Heinrich Voss, suggesting that his philosophy might find more congenial soil in Heidelberg; but the application bore no fruit.

Taking ordinary, honorary, extraordinary professors and licensed lecturers (Privat-docenten) together, its professorial strength consisted, in 1904-1905, of 23 teachers in the faculty of theology, 32 in that of law, 175 in that of medicine and 227 in that of philosophy - altogether 457.

The patricians of Venice and the lecturers of Padua made Averroism synonymous with doubt and criticism in theology, and with sarcasm against the hierarchy.

Teaching is of a very high standard and the lecturers are extremely approachable.

Thousands of lecturers set to strike Czech government bans communists Cripes!

A group of Cardiff lecturers are particularly disgruntled, pointing out that a better 16% deal was offered at Ulster.

Some lecturers prepare handouts with gaps for the students to fill in during the lecture.

Other speakers included Tsinghua journalism and social studies professors, and American journalism lecturers.

Specialist visiting lecturers also provide important ' real world ' input.

In addition to the above, there will be four guest lecturers.

And the campaign to gain fair pay for fe lecturers has been among the foremost priorities for NATFHE.

Titans of industry would do a better job than all those former polytechnic lecturers and their teams of management consultants.

The lecturers in schools seemed to represent " faculty " a little more, but they were overwhelmingly also someone else's college tutors.

We work closely with the National union of Students and the lecturers ' unions as well as other bodies relevant to postgraduate education.

In the relatively unstructured laboratory environment, lecturers were often unaware of my special needs.

Lecturers and tutors are invited to use the walkabout to prepare students for field work.

Read more about Queering the pitch - Tourism and Leisure lecturers look into gay football.

He is an architectural historian but all subjects are supervised by the specialist course lecturers.

Certainly our titans of industry would do a better job than all those former polytechnic lecturers and their teams of management consultants.

The lecturers in schools seemed to represent " faculty " a little more, but they were overwhelmingly also someone else 's college tutors.

We work closely with the National Union of Students and the lecturers ' unions as well as other bodies relevant to postgraduate education.

Joseph had more than the vanity of man, he had that of lecturers.

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Student athletes enjoy 18 sports on the intercollegiate level as well as special interest clubs, guest lecturers and more.

In Germany a few Cartesian lecturers taught at Leipzig and Halle, but the system took no root, any more than in Switzerland, where it had a brief reign at Geneva after 1669.

But no great writer and no great administrator came from Narbonensis; itinerant lecturers and journalists alone were produced in plenty, and at times minor poets.