Sentence examples for a time when professors from inspiring English sources

There was a time when professors had to prepare materials for their students.

There was a time when professors did not outrank music premieres on television.

There are many rules and procedures in the world of academia, and most of them date from a time when professors wore robes and rode horses, monks played the role of publishers, and graduate education was eerily similar to a page's apprenticeship to a knight.

All the while U.S. authorities treated Oswald with kid gloves at a time when professors and other innocent travelers who simply visited an Eastern Bloc country routinely faced harsh grilling by government officials upon their return.

Alpert was a Harvard assistant professor from a very wealthy family; he owned a Mercedes, an M.G., a sailboat, and a Cessna (and this was at a time when most assistant professors at Harvard could barely afford the Cessna).

At a time when big-name professors are beginning to strike deals with independent Internet companies, George E. Rupp, Columbia's president, describes the creation of Fathom.com as both an offensive and defensive move, one that creates an avenue for its professors to reach audiences beyond their Morningside Heights classrooms.

Professor Dawson's appointment comes at a time when several black professors at Harvard have raised the prospect of going to Princeton, bothered by what they see as slights by Harvard's new president, Lawrence H. Summers, and concerns about his commitment to affirmative action.

Ultimately, however, she's attempting to size up the nation at a time when, as the rhetoric professor Hayden White tells her, the triumph of Western capitalism has been "to identify democracy with the free market".

There was a time when those roles were reversed, Professor Hughes said.

"It is a vehicle for avoiding otherwise legitimate tax liabilities at a time when states need money badly," Professor Brunori said.

And rather than sending in inspectors at a time when relations with China are delicate, Professor Freeman said, more responsibility should fall on American corporations to work with Chinese suppliers to ensure product safety.