Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...year ago last June, on the seventieth anniversary of Dr. Everett's birthday, his friends and pupi's held a dinner in his honor at the Hotel Vendome. The occasion was also the thirtieth anniversary of his appointment to a professorship at Harvard...
...subjects, but none are of an exceptional nature or of general importance. The most significant is "An Opportunity," by W. G. Brown '91, a very readable plea for a higher form of teaching, to be provided by the future occupant of the recently founded Dorman B. Eaton Professorship of Government. The writer points out that the terms of Mr. Eaton's bequest provide not merely for a new chair, but for a new sort of chair. The broader, less academic, more human teaching that Mr. Eaton hoped for will be an innovation, and if the right man be found, will...
Several changes will be made next year in the Department of French, as is shown by the recent pamphlet of courses. Undoubtedly the most important of these is the founding of a professorship in Comparative Literature, since it involves a rearrangement of several courses. Professor A. R. Marsh will be the lecturer in this course for the year 1900-01; and the aim will be to give students a clear and comprehensive idea of the development of European literature, from the Middle Ages to the middle of the nineteenth century. With a view to securing better system in the arrangement...
After traveling abroad for a year, he accepted a professorship in economics at Harvard. He was Dean of Harvard College from 1876 to 1882 and Dean of the reorganized Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1890 to 1895. He had great influence as Dean and was a valuable adviser to the President. He was eminently successful in administrative work and contributed so much of his energy to it that he did not reach his highest possibilities in economic science. He devoted most of his attention to finance and taxation, and especially to the financial history of the United States...
...Buckminster Brown. Part of his bequest of $40,000, for establishing the John B. and Buckminster Brown Professorship of Orthopedic Surgery...