Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also been learned by the CRIMSON through other sources of information that the University has endeavored to induce Professor Beard to accept a permanent professorship at Harvard, but that he has decided to continue independent study and writing...
...from the estate of the late Alice Longfellow according to the terms of her will which was filed in the Middlesex Probate Court yesterday. This sum which was one of many public bequests is to constitute a perpetual fund in honor of her father who held a professorship in modern languages in the University. The gift stipulates that this fund is to be known as the Henry Wads worth Longfellow Fund, the income of which is to be used in the purchase of library books in foreign languages to aid in the studies of the belles letters. Since the will...
...poet Longfellow gave to Harvard the best years of his life in his professorship of modern languages at the University. He was in the center of Harvard when New England, and Boston in particular, were the last words in the story of American culture, and Harvard was the heart of New England and Boston. It was the name of Longfellow that linked with those of Emerson, Lowell, Holmes and Agassiz to bind an intellectual tradition that is still strong...
...institution of exchange professorships is one that ranks high in the Vagabond's private list of things worth preserving in the University. For who suspected as little as he on returning to college this fall that he would have an opportunity to listen in on a lecture at the College de France in Paris or at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg? Both establishments seemed as firmly fixed as any mountain and Mohammed was very much engaged in Cambridge. Yet the magic carpet of the exchange professorship brings both to him in the form of the series of public lectures, being given...
...Norton Professorship has been held previously by Professor Gilbert Murray, Requis Professor of Greek at Oxford, world famous classicist and man of letters. He was followed in 1927-28 by Professor Eric R. D. Maciagan, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum of London...