Word: professor
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Discussing "Is Harvard Within the Christian Tradition?" were Henry D. Aiken professor of Philosophy, Georges Florovsky, professor of Eastern Church History and Krister Stendahl, associate professor of New Testament...
...second forum on religion at Harvard will be sponsored by the Congregational Presbyterian Student Fellowship Monday evening. Panelists will be Paul J. Tillich, University professor; Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, and Donald C. Williams, professor of Philosophy...
...Professor George M. A. Hanfmann's current ancient mystery is the fabulous Lydian civilization, whose capital city in Sardis, Turkey, will be excavated during the next three summers. He returned on April 14th from a preliminary survey of the area and will leave again late in May to begin digging. "Sardis is an extremely rich place," says Professor Hanfmann, his "r's" revealing a slight German accent. "There are several big ruins above ground from the Hellenistic and the Roman period, but the palace of Croesus and the Temple of Zeus are buried. We will probably take on some...
...Professor Hanfmann's present role in the excavation of Sardis culminates a varied career in art and language. He was born in Russia but left in 1921 to become a Lithuanian citizen. Most of his education took place in Germany where he received a Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. "That was in the afterglow of the great German classical education, and the emphasis then was on philology." he explains. "My experience after coming to Fogg Museum, in 1935, was a very good counterpoise to that training. Fogg combined a museum with active art collecting--this was a new idea...
...some time, I have been using the method of Professor Jaeger, who was my teacher in Berlin, of uniting the history of ideas with the history of art. The problem is to what extent an art work is an expression of the ideas and ideals of a particular culture...