Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of ten donors contributed $150,000 to establish a chair in honor of the late Kuno Francke, former Emeritus Professor of Germanic Culture and Founder and Honorary Curater of the Germanic Museum, for the care of German Art. The chair was established in the belief that "the artistic development of a given nation in architecture, sculpture, and painting should be studied as an integral part of national life, closely allied to social conditions, intellectual tendencies, and literary movements." The chair was held last year by Friederich von der Leyeu, professor of the University of Cologue Professor Francke was chosen...
...find the facts in Japan and China's quarrel about Manchuria, to establish these facts with high authority, and to suggest an impartial solution, five wise Westerners went out to the everchanging East eight months...
...elected Committee. At the beginning of the House system, the masters were allowed to plan their own method of organizing undergraduate leaders in the dormitories. All the other six heads decided to have the boards chosen by a vote of the House members, but Professor Murdock decided to establish a committee chosen by himself and A. T. Evans '24, head tutor...
...valuable addition to the discussion of the proposal for a Society of Fellows at Harvard is made by R. M. Wernaer '99, in an article in the current issue of the Graduates' Magazine. Mr. Wernaer heartily approves President Lowell's plan to establish a society of scholars to which graduate students of special ability would be appointed with ample stipends for three year terms, but he believes in the necessity of making some provision within the University for scholarship as a life career. To this end he suggests the creation of an Institute of Research, appointment to which would...
...Switzerland, in 1837, has remained in the family ever since. The company now has 3, 500 looms scattered through Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the U. S. Emil J. Stehli, grandson of the founding Statt halter and president of Stehli Silks Corp., came to the U. S. in 1897 to establish an importing house as an adjunct to Zurich's Stehli & Co. Importing of Stehli silks proved profitable until the Dingley tariff ended it forever. As U. S. manufacturers do today in foreign lands, the resourceful Stehlis promptly started manufacture of silks safe within the tariff wall...