Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Eastman Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford was established last year by Mr. George Eastman, of Rochester, New York, by a gift of $200,000, to the American Trust Fund for Oxford University maintained by the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. The regulations of the professorship provide that the holder shall be an American eminent in any branch of research or university study. Elections to the professorship are made by a Board of representatives of the University of Oxford and the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. The term of appointment may be from one to five years, with...
Professor John Livingston Lowes, who has been chosen to inaugurate the professorship, has been professor of English at Harvard since 1918, and was dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during 1924-25. He is the author of many notable contributions to English scholarship and criticism, among them being "Convention and Revolt in Poetry" 1919, and "The Road to Zandau", 1927. He will lecture at Oxford in the Honour School of English Language and Literature...
...Garden, which is situated at the corner of Garden and Linnaean Streets, Cambridge, was established in 1807 by a number of public-spirited gentlemen who endowed a professorship of Natural History. The seven acres which form the present Garden were laid out in 1807 by Professor William Daudrige Peck, with the formal lines of smaller Loudon establishments being used as a model. After the death of Professor Peck the Garden passed under the charge of Thomas Nuttall as Curator, and later of Thaddeus William Harris, the funds having dwindled so that it was no longer possible to assign the income...
...considers his career finds it an organic, continually expanding entity. A graduate in 1864, he returned to teach Philosophy in 1872, and assumed in 1889 the wider duties of the Alford Professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity. Through the period of his teaching, he wrote works on philosophy, education, and English, with the concrete directness of a popularizer of knowledge who could still retain dignity. This attitude was progressive; an ideal of both the University...
...William Holesworth, who is the author of the "History of English Law" has written an essay on "Blackstone's Treatment of Equity". Blackstone was the first to hold the Vinerian professorship which Holesworth now holds. Famous for his "Commentaries". Blackstone exerted a powerful influence on American law at a time when law books were exceedingly scarce in this country. The "Commentaries" consist chiefly of the material which the author used for his lectures and, similarly. Holesworth's article contains material from these lectures...