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Chandler Rathfon Post '04, former Professor of Greek and of Fine Arts, has been appointed to the William Dorr Boardman Chair of Fine Arts, it was announced yesterday. This appointment makes it necessary for the Corporation to accept the resignation of Professor Post as an Associate of Eliot House. He will be succeeded by Dr. Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology at the Medical School. Professor Post has been a member of the Harvard teaching staff since his graduation from the college...
...Boardman Professorship of Fine Arts was established in 1924 at the bequest of Alice L. Boardman in memory of her brother, William Dorr Boardman...
...another five miles in her for Russ," said Pilot Jimmy Doolittle last year at the National Air Races just after making a world's landplane record of 294 m.p.h. "Her" referred to the plane, a fat little bumblebee known as Gee Bee 11. "Russ" was famed Pilot Russell Boardman...
...when the 1933 National Air Races were run off at Los Angeles last week "Russ" Boardman and his Gee Bee 11 were not there to make that extra 5 m.p.h. Instead, his plane was a pile of wreckage in Indianapolis and his dead body was being flown back to his Hartford home. Without him, the fastest time flown at Los Angeles was 280 m.p.h.-first time in National Air Race history that one year's speed record was not bettered the next...
...received his bachelor of fine arts degree in 1917 in New Haven. After work in architecture at Columbia he travelled extensively in France and Italy. In 1915 he started lecturing on fine arts at Yale and was appointed full professor in 1920. He has been William Dorr Boardman Professor here since...