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Professoriat

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pro·fes·so·ri·ate or pro·fes·so·ri·at  (prf-sôr-t, -sr-, prf-)
n.
1. The rank or office of a professor.
2. College or university professors considered as a group.


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15) Although the academy is marbled with professors who spent time in the Solicitor General's office or practiced with public-interest or private law firms that maintained a Supreme Court practice, most faculty members, even those with Court-related backgrounds, entered the professoriat largely because they wished to devote themselves to traditional teaching and scholarship.
Adolph Hitler was responsible for new foreign blood arriving in the Harvard professoriat to trigger a prewar overdue renaissance in economics.
In the preface to Recovering the Past he announces that he has written his book not for his colleagues in the professoriat but for "that elusive critter called the general reader, or, more precisely, for the vast number of people who genuinely love history for its own sake--which, as will become evident, I regard as eliminating a sizable majority of professional historians.
 
 
 
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