Word: lectureship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rubicon?" asked the examiner when Q came up for his viva. "Well, at first they hardly knew which way to turn," said Q hopefully. "That will do, Sir. Good morning," said the examiner. Q failed to get a "first" (equivalent to summa cum laude) but was given an Oxford lectureship, with Virgil and Aristophanes as his subjects ("I tried to communicate my delight in them rather than to discuss niceties of textual criticism...
...first of a series of ten lectures to be given this fall in connection with the annual William James Lectureship, will be delivered this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D by Professor emeritus of Columbia Edward Lee Thorndike...
...general charge of the ceremony, as an "outstanding leader and thinker in contemporary religions and political fields," Niebuhr will speak on "The Relation of the devotional service will be conducted Revelation to the Meaning of History." One of the few Americans to have been appointed to a Gifford Lectureship of Scotland, an honor which he shares with Professor William E. Hocking and Professor Arthur Darby Nock of Harvard, he is the author of many books and an editor of the "Nation...
Lord Gifford, great Scottish jurist, established his lectureship in natural theology with a bequest...
...Dunham Lectureship is intended "to bind closer the bonds of fellowship and understanding between students and investigators in this and foreign countries." The lecturers are appointed annually and are drawn from among the leaders of medical research by a committee at the Harvard Medical School...