Tag: Louis Byington Barnes

  • Nation & World

    Louis Byington Barnes, 81, Harvard professor, author

    Louis Byington Barnes’s practice of focused attention to speech was probably born out of his lengthy and accomplished teaching career, a legacy built on his personal mantra that teaching is, “the discipline of listening extra carefully before making interventions in the discussion.’’ He died Aug. 22 at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

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