Big-name professors often had multiple assistants to handle just that one task. Now, most professors type their own manuscripts on a computer.
For Buttenweiser University Professor Stanley H. Hoffman, though, the info-tech revolution has yet to come.
Jacqueline A. Brown, his assistant, still takes letters in shorthand while Hoffman dictates. And she types the manuscripts that he writes in long hand.
"We must be the last of the species to do it that way," Brown says.
Hoffman says has no plans to changes his routines.
"I am a dinosaur. I am too old to change," Hoffman says. "In my next life, maybe I will use a computer. It's too later for this one."
But Brown's role is far more important than doing occasional grunt work.
"She serves as my memory and as my organizer," Hoffman says.
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