Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endowment of $150,000 has been given to the University to found a chair of German Art and Culture, to be known as the Kuno Francke Professorship. The chair is named in honor of Kuno Francke, the founder and honorary curator of the Germanic Museum, now emeritus professor of German Culture. No incumbent has been named for the current academic year...
...duties of the Kuno Francke Professorship will be of the same general nature as those of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry, the only other chair in the University that seeks to correlate the culture of a large field. The holder of the Chair of Poetry is at freedom to discuss any of the seven liberal arts, music and fine arts as well as verse, being considered poetry in the broader sense...
Like the Norton Chair, the Kuno Francke Professorship will have, for a few years at least, guest professors as annual incumbents. It is the desire of the donors, however, that a man will be finally secured to combine the knowledge of the various branches of Tentonic Cultures. Instead of presenting merely one aspect of the subject, a permanent recipent of the Kuno Francke Professorship would have to be able to give students the benefit of understanding of German history. German art, and German literature. It was the unusual ability of Professor Francke to so correlate the whole of German culture...
...purpose is to teach a method of approach to life in general, an intangible matter certainly, but the characteristic of the really outstanding teacher is his ability to bring the most evanescent affairs within the range of grasp of his more human followers. Experience with the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship demonstrates that it is no easy matter to find a man capable of perpetuating the Norton tradition. It is not going to be easy to find the individual who can make Germanic Culture live as did Kuno Francke, but it is to be hoped that the committee's plan...
...chairman of the board of the Eastman Kodak Co., occurs the phrase "donor of more than $50,000,000 to instns. of higher edn." Last week Mr. Eastman increased his total educational donations by $200,000, establishing, through the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, a George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford University. Said Mr. Eastman: "I am desirous of doing something that will assist Englishmen and Colonials and particularly the group destined to play an important part in government, science, scholarship, journalism and industry to understand America. ... I do not forget that an Oxford experience will be immensely stimulating...