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Professor Charles E. Merriam, Chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, has been appointed Godkin Lecturer here for the coming year, the University announced today...
Other appointments announced were those of Charles E. Merriam, chairman of the department of Political Sciences at the University of Chicago, as visiting lecturer on Government for the second half of the 1940-41 academic year, and of Emory L. Chaffee, Gordon McKay Professor of Physics and of Communication Engineering, as director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory, effective next September...
...Holcombe, head of the Department, still has his heart set on another permanent appointee, and he deserves one. Accordingly, he has picked up his wheel of fortune; around and around she goes, and where she will stop, nobody knows. But the needle is quivering in the direction of Professor Merriam of the University of Chicago...
Professor Merriam, 66 years old, is a big name in Government. Since 1911 he has been a full professor at Chicago; over 20 years ago he wrote the books that made him an authority. But as a prime example of a "Big Name" professor, he would not share the tutoring burden of the Department. The undeniable lustre of his name would only cover up, not cure, the aches and pains of the Department...
...full professor at Chicago since 1911, Merriam has been chairman of the Department of Political Science there, and was President 15 years ago of the American Political Science Association. The pre-war Republican candidate for mayor of Chicago has published numerous books and articles, of which "American Political Theories" (1903) and "American Political Ideas" (1921) are the best known...