Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...appointed Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages from September 1, 1907, Professor Ford was an instructor in French from 1895 to 1901, instructor in Romance Languages for 1901-02, and assistant professor of Romance Languages from 1902-07. Last year the literary side of the Smith Professorship was divorced from the Romance and Professor Bliss Perry was appointed professor of English Literature on the literary side...
...these the University will receive a bequest of Boston & Maine railroad common stock to endow the Nathaniel Ropes Professorship of Political Economy. If, after the endowment of the professorship, any surplus remains, it will go to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. A second bequest from the same source provides for the establishment of the Nathaniel Ropes, Jr., Fund, the purpose of which is not stated...
...recent meeting of the Corporation the Treasurer reported the receipt, through Mr. Charles C. Jackson, Treasurer of the John Homans Memorial Fund, of $50,000 to establish the John Homans Professorship in Surgery, and of an additional sum for the erection of a tablet in one of the Medical School Buildings. The offer of this gift was accepted at a meeting of the Corporation last spring...
...view of the fact that the late Professor J. K. Paine established the Musical Department at Harvard, and during his long professorship rendered great service to the cause of music in America, it has been proposed that the new building, or one of the halls therein, shall take the form of a memorial...
...November meeting of the Yale Corporation was held last Monday. The Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War, who was elected to the Corporation by the graduates last June was present. Announcement was made of a gift of $50,000 to establish a new professorship in medicine, and of several changes in the requirements for admission to the medical school...