Word: professor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, has tendered his resignation as chairman of the Department of Economics, a post he has held for many years, it was learned yesterday...
Curious was the preamble to the will left by Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot, rich, blue-blooded Social Ethics professor at Harvard, who died last month: "I . . . realizing that God has allowed me a life of almost unbroken happiness upon this earth, and that this happiness has been due in no way to any merit of mine, but has been permitted in spite of grievous sins and shortcomings, do now make this, my last will and testament." To friends and servants he bequeathed $200,000; to pet philanthropies about...
Married. Sir Frederick Grant Banting, 47, University of Toronto professor, who won the Nobel Prize (1923) as co-discoverer of insulin; and Henrietta Ball, 27, laboratory technician; his second, her first; in Toronto...
...recent establishment of a fellowship for the study of modern art is a hollow mockery, when the one man (Feild) that can save the department from its past must go." However stimulating a teacher he may be, Professor Feild is obviously not the only man that can improve the department. The fellowship for the study of modern art is not a "hollow mockery" but will certainly help in the consideration of art in relation to the present...
...recommending that assistant professor Feild be reappointed, the Council said that his loss was "depriving the students at Harvard of a more complete understanding of the Fine Arts," and that he filled a definite need for "excellent teaching in the theory of visual arts." Moreover, a petition signed by 80 per cent of the Fine Arts concentrators called Feild's non-reappointment "a serious blow to the teaching of Fine Arts," and warned that "with the loss of Mr. Feild the Department (Fine Arts) is in danger of becoming one-sided...