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Word: chaires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight hundred and seventeen delegates assembled within the walled and turreted Kremlin last week. Lumbering peasants, stalwart workers, stern or oleaginous officials, they made up the 15th Conference of the Communist Party. One-fourth of them were empowered to take the floor in reply to a question from the Chair. One-sixth could comment on the debate. One-fourteenth were authorized to make speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flame but no Fire | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Professor Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, and first occupant of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, will lecture tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. His subject will be "The Hercic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gilbert Murray to Lecture | 11/3/1926 | See Source »

...called upon five learned friends to submit plans for the foundation of the professorships and handed these over to the Corporation for their selection and approval of the best. Isaac Greenwood '85 was appointed the first professor of this foundation. The present holder of the chair is Theodore Lyman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professorships Perpetuate Memory of Founders Two Hundred Years Ago | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Chair of Hebrew Founded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professorships Perpetuate Memory of Founders Two Hundred Years Ago | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...College shall judge best for its benefit: and they shall have full power to sell said lands and put the money out to interest, the income whereof shall be for the aforesaid purpose." It was not until 1815 that the College authorities deemed it wise to establish the chair, which they named the Royall Professorship of Law. In 1816, Isaac Parker, '86, was chosen the first professor of that foundation. It is interesting to note also that the Royall Professorship was really the beginning of the present Law School, for, a year later, Professor Parker, then Chief Justice of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professorships Perpetuate Memory of Founders Two Hundred Years Ago | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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