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He wrote it as an undergraduate at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and as a graduate student at Yale University, from which he was, as he relates in his foreword, " kicked out toot-sweet on my rock-roll caboose " for writing papers with rock-music themes for philosophy classes.
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During his time as an honors program undergraduate, Sagan worked in the laboratory of the geneticist H. J. Muller and wrote a thesis on the origins of life with physical chemist H. C. Urey.
Newman wrote Elements of the topology of plane sets of points ( 1939 ), a definitive work on general topology, and still highly recommended as an undergraduate text.
In his 2001 undergraduate commencement address, university president William R. Brody said about the name: " In 1888, just 12 years after the university was founded, Mark Twain wrote about this university in a letter to a friend.
Robert Reid underscores this importance stating, " while still an undergraduate, Marc wrote the Mosaic software ... that made the web popularly relevant and touched off the revolution " ( p. xlii ).
He wrote the poem as an undergraduate, and it has spread around the world often in slightly altered form.
The proposed amendment was ratified by Wyoming in 1978 as a protest to a Congressional pay raise, but the proposed amendment was largely forgotten before University of Texas at Austin undergraduate student Gregory Watson wrote a paper on the subject in 1982.
While an undergraduate student at the University of Miami Herman produced, wrote and directed a college musical called Sketchbook.
Although he had been an undergraduate at Exeter College, J. R. R. Tolkien was a Fellow of Pembroke from 1925 to 1945, and wrote The Hobbit and the first two books of The Lord of the Rings during his time there.
He studied drama at the University of Bristol and wrote his undergraduate thesis on " A Marxist overview of popular 1970s cinema and hegemonic discourses ".
The historian Robert Stevens wrote that " it was Langdell's goal to turn the legal profession into a university educated one — and not at the undergraduate level, but through a three-year post baccalaureate degree.
Together with Stanley Fischer he also wrote widely-used undergraduate textbooks.
While still an undergraduate, Goddard wrote a paper proposing a method for " balancing aeroplanes.
He taught undergraduate courses at Harvard on the history and philosophy of science, and wrote books explaining the scientific method to laymen.
As an undergraduate he wrote some poetry and literary history.
He recast the undergraduate physics curriculum, wrote 14 books between 1933 and 1968, and built a department of major international prestige.
He wrote the alkali halide paper in 1923, having " by the summer of 1922 " been " thoroughly indoctrinated ... with quantum theory ", in part by the courses of Edwin Kemble following a fascination with Bohr's work during his undergraduate days.
Fellow Washington Post reviewer Desson Howe queered the " perplexing fusion of cartoon and docudrama ..." In his review for Newsweek, David Ansen wrote, " His scenes have no shape, his characters are stick figures, the wit is undergraduate and his soggy set pieces of slow-motion carnage are third-rate Peckinpah imitations.
While an undergraduate at UNC-Chapel Hill, he wrote his Honors Thesis on the history of the North Carolina corrections system.
Etan Cohen wrote for Beavis and Butthead as an undergraduate member.
The Science of Logic is too advanced for undergraduate students so Hegel wrote an Encyclopaedic version of the logic which was published in 1817.
King first came to prominence as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in 1965 when he wrote and sang " Everyone's Gone to the Moon ," an international best seller.
While he was still a first year undergraduate, King wrote and sang his first hit, " Everyone's Gone to the Moon ", which sold over a million copies in the UK and 4. 5 million around the world.
Two of the undergraduate contributors, William Miller and Paul Thompson, were both ex-national service, and wrote about British Intelligence operations on the borders of the Soviet Union.
Geuss took both his undergraduate ( B. A., summa cum laude, 1966 ) and graduate ( Ph. D., 1971 ) degrees at Columbia University, where he wrote his thesis under the direction of Robert Denoon Cumming.
While at Cambridge he wrote regularly for the undergraduate newspaper Varsity and also created a strip cartoon whose hero, " Olly ", reflected student life and became a cult figure.
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Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:
And she wrote the libretto for an oratorio on the subject of Judas Maccabeus performed at the Hanukkah festival which came in December.
As if to make certain that Wright would be unable to pay any settlement at all, Miriam wrote to prospective clients denouncing him ; ;
The Commissioners at Boston wrote the victims to see their misdeeds and repent or they should `` look upon them as men prepared for slaughter ''.
But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.
When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.
Sturley wrote to Quiney that Sir Edward `` gave his allowance and liking thereof, and affied unto us his best endeavour, so that his rights be preserved '', and that `` Sir Edward saith we shall not be at any fault for money for prosecuting the cause, for himself will procure it and lay it down for us for the time ''.
Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.
On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.
He had been, he wrote Mencken at once, `` in the country '', a euphemism for an experience that had not greatly changed him.
The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;
It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.
Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.
So impressive were those serious years of study at the university that Hans later wrote, `` to be perfectly free, the young man must revel in the great kingdom of thought and imagination ; ;
Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.
One wrote: `` ( I am so hungry ) I could eat a rider off his horse & snap at the stirups ''.
A Texan wrote to a male companion at home: `` what has become of Halda and Laura??
A Michigan soldier wrote his brother: `` I am well at present with the exception I have got the Dyerear and I hope thease few lines find you the same ''.
When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??
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