Word: lectureships
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Charles Eliot Norton '46, an endowment fund to yield $1,000 annually has been given by James Loeb '88 to the Archaeological Institute of America, to be used to found a lectureship in archaeology...
...will of Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll of Keene, New Hampshire, provision was made for the annual delivery at the University of a lecture upon "The Immortality of Man." Last year the lectureship was filled by Mr. W. S. Bigelow '71, whose subject was "Immortality as Conceived and Taught in Buddhism...
...Ingersoll Lectureship was established by the will of Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll of Keene, New Hampshire, in 1893. It was provided that a lecture upon "The Immortality of Man" should be delivered and published annually. Last year Mr. W. S. Bigelow '71 spoke on "Immortality as Conceived and Taught in Buddhism...
...Godkin lectures are delivered under an endowment given to the University in 1903 by friends of Edwin L. Godkin, the late editor of the Nation, as a memorial of his long and distinguished service to the country of his adoption. The lectureship was inaugurated in 1904 by James Bryce, now British ambassador, whose subject was "The Study of Popular Governments...
Owing to the success of the French lectureships established by Mr. J. H. Hyde '98, of New York, at the University and elsewhere in the United States, Mr. Hyde offered in 1904 to found a similar course at the Sorbonne on American literature and institutions. The University of Paris accepted the offer, with the understanding that the course was to be made permanent if it was successful the first year. Professor Barrett Wendell '77 was the first American lecturer, spending the year 1904-05 at the Sorbonne and other French universities, where he lectured on "American Literature, Manners, Customs...