Word: professorship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harlow Shapley, who was appointed Director of the College Observatory last fall, has been elected by the Governing Boards of the University to the Paine Professorship of Practical Astronomy, which has been vacant since the death in 1919 of Professor Edward C. Pickering '65, former director of the Observatory...
...these courses could be adequately covered by reading and conference with a tutor, and so present faculty member would be able to spend some time on tutorial work. The question of the attitude can be taken care of; if it were possible for a tutor to reach a full professorship by that work alone, the interest of these men in tutorial work would be permanent. As for the undergraduate, if be found that he could not possibly pass any course without doing the required reading and if the recommendation of his tutor were necessary before he could have a degree...
...soldier and statesman, but was one of the greatest philanthropists and scientists of his day. He was the founder and first recipient of the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society and founder of the Rumford Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Rumford Professorship in Harvard University...
...Jean Jacques Haffner, the distinguished French architect who recently accepted a professorship in the Architectural School, took up his duties at the University yesterday afternoon. He did not arrive at Boston till Sunday evening...
...some New Jersey city and on Thursdays a special performance will be given in New York. From there the men will go to New Haven, where a joint concert will, in all probability, be given with one of the Yale musical clubs. A benefit performance for the Trumbull Professorship of Connecticut will be given at the final stop, Hartford, on Saturday...