Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first professorship of chemistry at Harvard was founded in 1791, without laboratory facilities, but it was not until 1847 that a few of the special students received laboratory instruction from Professor Horsford in the Lawrence Scientific school. Charles W. Eliot was really the first undergraduate to receive any considerable opportunity to study the subject, the pamphlet relates. Because he had incurred the approbation of Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke, he was permitted the use of the Professor's private laboratory, and spent a large part of his time there. After he became President of the University in later years, he maintained...
...pessimist reporter may urge, a boyhood of such dazzling brilliancy promised so much more, say an assistant professorship at $1200 a year, that a position as a clerk is failure. And yet what does entering college at 10, passing the anatomy examination at the Medical School at 11, and winning a diploma at the age of 16 mean beyond a receptive mind turned prematurely into a narrow channel and trained through constant, self-centered attention? These early achievements betray few elements needed for later success, nor were they sufficiently startling to proclaim the youth a genius...
...gift is to be used, according to Mrs. Boardman's will, for endowing a professorship of fine arts which will bear his name forever...
...University medical school has just made public the fact that the $25,000 fund to establish the Silas Arnold Houghton assistant professorship was the gift of Mrs. Francis L. Coolidge of Boston...
...graduate of the University of Missouri in 1910, and received his doctor's degree at Princeton in 1914. He was astronomer at Mt. Wilson Observatory in California from that time until he came to Harvard as director of the college observatory in 1921, now holding also the Paine professorship of practical astronomy. Dr. Shapley is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society in England as well as of other societies, and has made notable researches in photometry and spectroscopy...