Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School. After graduating from the University in 1882, he took the degree of LL.D. from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago and in 1921 he was given the same degree by Cambridge University, England. Before being appointed to the Royall Professorship, Professor Beale held the Carter chair of general jurisprudence. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has published many books and monographs on legal questions...
...same beverage as that used by Gargantua, but I should like to have our directors provide us with some good cold water in various handy places in the library. If this is not done, it may happen that a tired or absent minded student, leaning back in his chair and yawning noisily, will yell, to the disturbance of many: "A boire." Alex Chalufour...
...must have been conscious that the time had arrived when the embrace of an editor's chair was too constricting for powers and ambitions such as his ; that an audience of some 30,000 readers was hardly sufficient for the voice that he felt was in him. A long time now he had been in the habit of roaming over the country 'to lecture, now to business men, more often before educators...
...incumbents of the chair are to be chosen, it has been announced, without limits of nationality, from men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation. It is not at present contemplated that there shall be anything in the way of permanent tenure of the appointment to this chair, although the details of tenure have not yet been determined...
...endowing a chair of Poetry, Mr. C. Chauncey Stillman has made a bequest whose worth and importance can not be too highly valued. The establishment of such a professorship is a notable contribution to the intellectual and spiritual life of the University, for the incumbents of the Chair will doubtless be men whom Harvard heretofore could not afford to secure and for whom there has been no provision in the academic system. It is unlikely that if Mr. Stillman had not had the imagination, as well as the generosity, to create such a foundation, no provision for just such...