Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...John Welsh, president of the Centennial Board of Finance, has turned over the testimonial fund of $50,000, with which he was honored, to the University of Pennsylvania, to endow a "John Welsh Centennial Professorship...
...following changes have been made in the Faculty of Princeton: Professor Stephen Alexander has given up the active duties of the Astronomical department, becoming Emeritus Professor; Professor Young, of Dartmouth, has been appointed to the Associate Professorship of Astronomy; Dr. Charles G. Rockwood, of Rutgers College, has been associated with Professor Duffield in the mathematical department. S. S. Orris, of Marietta College, O., has been given the Professorship of Greek...
...lecture-rooms," it is stated, "are imperatively demanded." Further the University needs a fire-proof building for the Divinity School Library, "a new gymnasium of three times the capacity of the present building," and apparatus and collections for the Fine Arts Department. The President, moreover, calls for three new professorships, namely, a professorship of Jurisprudence, a professorship of ecclesiastical history, and a professorship of hygiene...
...Brooks, a graduate of Williams in 1870, and for the last three or four years connected as a student and teacher with Professor Agassiz, has been appointed to the Associate Professorship of Zoology in the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore...
...Scribner's for March there appeared a severe criticism on Mr. Lowell's "Among My Books," in which the writer, referring to Professor Masson, says: "He has also done a noble work in his Professorship at Edinburgh, where he has accomplished what the united Faculty of Harvard College have thus far failed in doing, for he has created among his own students an ardent love for the study of Belles-Lettres." Has our Faculty failed in awakening an interest in literature in this College? Is it a fact that the cultivation of a good style and of taste in letters...