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...University of Berlin, will come to Harvard as lecturers for half of the academic year 1930-31. Each will be the first incumbent of a recently endowed lectureship. Professor Dewey will be William James lecturer during the second half of the next academic year; Professor Goldschmidt will be Kuno Francke Professor of German art and culture for the first half...
Professor Goldschmidt, who comes as the first occupant of the Kuno Francke Chair, lectured at Harvard during 1927-28. At that time he conducted a seminary on German Sculpture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and gave a course of public lectures on Mediseval German Cathedrals...
Camillo von Klenze '86, professor at the University of Munich, will come to Harvard to lecture at some time during the second half-year, it has been announced by Kuno Francke, emeritus professor of German Culture and honorary curator of the Germanic Museum, where Professor von Klenze will lecture...
Like the Norton Chair, the Kuno Francke Professorship will have, for a few years at least, guest professors as annual incumbents. It is the desire of the donors, however, that a man will be finally secured to combine the knowledge of the various branches of Tentonic Cultures. Instead of presenting merely one aspect of the subject, a permanent recipent of the Kuno Francke Professorship would have to be able to give students the benefit of understanding of German history. German art, and German literature. It was the unusual ability of Professor Francke to so correlate the whole of German culture...
...grasp of his more human followers. Experience with the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship demonstrates that it is no easy matter to find a man capable of perpetuating the Norton tradition. It is not going to be easy to find the individual who can make Germanic Culture live as did Kuno Francke, but it is to be hoped that the committee's plan of several short tenures of the chair during the first few years of its existence will bring to light some man worthy and willing to take a permanent place in this position: The sooner such a permanent incumbent...