Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Promotion of five members of the Harvard Faculty was announced last night, together with the granting of sabbatical leaves to three professors. Two men have been raised to Professorships, two to Associate Professorships, and one to an Assistant Professorship...
...Mclean Professorship of Ancient and Modern History has been granted to William Scott Ferguson, Professor of Ancient History at Harvard since 1912, who, in 1913-14, was a professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Edward Channing '78 recently retired to the position of Mclean Professor, Emeritus, was the last holder of the chair...
Arthur Becket Lamb, since 1925 Sheldon Emery, Professor of Organic Chemistry, has been elected to the chair of Erving Professor of Chemistry. He has been Director of the Harvard Chemistry Laboratory since 1912 and has just assumed charge of the recently completed Mallinckrodt and Converse Laboratories. The Erving Professorship has been previously held by six professors, the last of whom was the late Theodore William Richards. James Bryant Conant '14, succeeds Professor Lamb as Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry...
Dean Briggs has long been known as a famous educator. An assistant professor of English from 1885 to 1890, he received his professorship in 1891. In the same year he became dean of Harvard College, an office which he held until 1902, when he resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It was while he was president of Radcliffe College from 1903 to 1923 that he became most famous, and was awarded honorary degrees by Harvard. Yale, Western Reserve, and Lafayette Universities...
...eleventh consecutive year of its existence. The Boylston prizes, one of $50 and two of $30 each, which constitute the second, third, and fourth awards of the present combined competition were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston '35 in honor of his uncle who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory. It is the holder of this chair who has charge of the contest...