Word: professorship
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After being graduated from Harvard, Professor Putnam went to Salem, where he acted as superintendent of the Essex Institute and director of the Peabody Academy of Science until 1874. The following year he became curator of the Peabody Museum. In 1886 he received the appointment to the Peabody professorship. He has also held the positions of chief of the department of ethnology at the World's Columbian Exposition and the curatorship of the division of Anthropology in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. His publications on zoology and anthropology number over 300. Since 1870 he has been engaged...
...Department of Geology, will return to Cambridge today from Germany, where he has been since October as exchange professor at the University of Berlin. Professor Davis left Cambridge for Europe at the close of the last academic year and spent the summer in geological study in Switzerland. His professorship in the University of Berlin expired with the first half-year and he has since been engaged in special work in geology...
...published in 1896 under the title, "Les dernieres poesies de Marguerite de Navarre." M. Lefranc was appointed in research work on the life and works of Rabelais, and in 1902 founded the "Societe des Etudes Rabelaisiennes," in memory of Rabelais and his era. Two years later he accepted the professorship of modern French language and literature at the College de France, the oldest professorship of its kind in France...
Last January Professor Swain was appointed to a professorship in the Graduate School of Applied Science in the University, and he will take up his work next September...
Professor Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 has been a leader in the Faculty since his appointment in 1900 to a professorship of the science of government. He has taken unusual interest in undergraduate affairs and has made several investigations into undergraduate conditions and compiled interesting statistics from the results. Professor Lowell has recently added to his international reputation as a scholar by the publication of two volumes on the Government of England. Before becoming a professor he practiced law in Boston for nearly twenty years. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School as well as of the College. Professor...