Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry is uniquely designed to stimulate culture. By the terms of Mr. Still man's bequest, the incumbent of the chair must be a man of international reputation, whom Harvard in all probability could not otherwise secure. Under the broad definition of poetry the new professorship makes provision for men of ability in the cultural arts of music, painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as in the rhythms of language. Professor Murray of Oxford, an authority on the Greek drama, is of the type which the chair was designed to attract...
...later years, tutors and undergraduates of every department whose work comes under the broad definition of poetry will benefit by personal contact with leaders of thought. Truly the chair in honor of Professor Norton is an unusually valuable addition to Harvard scholarship. In the words of President Lowell, the professorship of poetry "helps the struggle of years to place college emphasis on intellectual culture...
...prize was given with a view to the fact that the University was the first institution of learning to establish a professorship in the field of music. The first prize will be given a year from this spring as it is to be maintained by interest on the sum donated, and some time must be allowed for the interest to accumulate. In the meantime, the Music Department will draw up the regulations for the competition, and the amount to be given...
...bachelor's degree costs $4800 and four years, the master's $6000 and five, and the doctorate, $8500, and seven--a not inconsiderable investment--in terms and money alike. And the reward? For the few who are chosen, it is a professorship, attained only at the end of 15 or 20 years, and worth, at a small college, perhaps $3000, at a medium-sized one $3700 and at the largest $6000. The gains of a deanship are slightly higher. Whereas professors average $3111 and instructors $1588, deans in 44 institutions receive a mean...
Then in 1882 Leo XIII (who, while he was papal nuncio in Brussels, had noted the young priest), conceived the idea of establishing a chair of philosophy in the University of Louvain to counter-balance the disarray of ideas prevalent among its students. For this professorship, all praise and recommendations centred in the studious priest, Desiré-Joseph Mercier. To Rome he went; conferred with many, including Pope Leo himself; outlined a Thomist program of scholastic philosophy with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many...