Eleven students were sitting around a table at Barnard College the other day expressly to learn how to write fiction, and their teacher, the novelist Maxine Swann, told them, "I cannot teach you to write".
· The death of philosopher Stuart Hampshire, reported this week, reminded Karl Sabbagh, who has kindly reminded me, of an exchange said to have taken place on the high table at Wadham College, Oxford, where he succeeded Maurice Bowra as warden.
In early September 1995, I sat with fifteen other student poets around a conference table at Brooklyn College, while Allen Ginsberg made appointments for the private tutorials he would give over the next two semesters.
In addition, mentees recommended improvement of mentoring skills among mentors and supervisors at the college (see Table 2).
On Wednesday, he covered 250 miles from Miami to Orlando, punctuated with a speech on Latin America, rallies in a parking lot and a catering hall, and a round table at a community college on the space industry.
In our minds, we were still sitting around the dining room table at college with him singing songs.
I was with some friends from college, and we took a table at the back.
At high table at his Cambridge college, he could be clubbable and amusing, and might even bend your ear about how much he liked the jazz-age novels of Anita Loos.
This crisis endures at the college level.
Keller said, "I taught at the college".
