Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endowment of $150,000 has been given to the University to found a chair of German Art and Culture, to be known as the Kuno Francke Professorship. The chair is named in honor of Kuno Francke, the founder and honorary curator of the Germanic Museum, now emeritus professor of German Culture. No incumbent has been named for the current academic year...
There were ten donors to the fund, Julius Rosenwald of Chicago gave $50,000 toward the foundation of the chair. Henry Goldman '78 subscribed $40,000, and Felix Warburg of New York City subscribed $25,000. The other donors included C. J. Liebman '98, of New York; Theodore Battenhausen of New York; J. F. Schoellkopf of Buffalo, N. Y; Julius Goldman of New York City;, P. M. Warburg of New York City; F. A. O. Schwarz '24; and Henry Schwarz '29, both of Greenwich, Connecticut...
Similar to Norton Chair...
...duties of the Kuno Francke Professorship will be of the same general nature as those of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry, the only other chair in the University that seeks to correlate the culture of a large field. The holder of the Chair of Poetry is at freedom to discuss any of the seven liberal arts, music and fine arts as well as verse, being considered poetry in the broader sense...
...National celebration in honor of 130th anniversary of death of Count Casimir Pulaski, at Savannah, Ga., where he was mortally wounded aiding George Washington. In Michigan, a drive to collect an endowment fund for a Chair of Polish history and literature at the University of Michigan...