Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Bartel, a non-Socialist Laborite, rose from the estate of a locomotive engineer in his youth to the chief professorship of physics at the Lwow Polytechnical Institute. He won fame by his efficient superintendence of Poland's railway mobilization against the Soviets' attempted invasion six years ago. Last week he announced: 1) The Cabinet will at once convoke the National Assembly, which will elect a new President who must be acceptable to Marshal Pilsudski. 2) The Cabinet will then resign, and the President will name a new Premier. 3) Thereafter Parliament will be prorogued by executive decree until...
...single man brought its fame far above the fame of many another face-Woodrow Wilson. Today the type is perhaps best seen in onetime Editor Edward W. Bok of the Ladies' Home Journal, who last week bestowed $150,000 upon Princeton University for a Woodrow Wilson professorship in English literature...
...course one does not endow a $150,000 professorship to commemorate an accident of nature. Editor Bok's admiration for Woodrow Wilson had its roots in a temperamental affinity that naturally existed between two self-assertive individualists who could agree on many things; and in one strong-minded man's appreciation of another's "beautiful thinking machine." Also, Mr. Bok, with a self-educated man's capacity for admiring education in others, never ceased to marvel at Mr. Wilson's command of language, including slang. He even asked Mr. Wilson once how he came...
...restless business genius of Walter Clark Teagle. Once, not so long ago, he was indecisive about a career. He had done so well by getting his Cornell B. S. degree in chemistry in three years (he matriculated at 18) that that University offered him an instructorship with a professorship in sight. The initial salary of $600 annually tempted him little. However, the academic life...
Last spring Mr. Stillman also endowed a chair of poetry at the University, which is to be known as the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship and the purpose of which is to be instruction in poetry, in its broadest sense, including language, music and the fine arts. The first recipient of this chair, who is to come to Cambridge next fall, is Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford, a noted British Classicist and man of letters. Mr. Stillman has also made a number of gifts of books and paintings to the Widener Library and the Fogg Art Museum...