Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis, who is a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1901, took his Ph.D. degree at Harvard in 1906. In 1905 he became an instructor in physics and held the position for five years until his appointment to an assistant professorship in the Physics Department in 1910. In 1919 he became a professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Engineering School and has held the chair ever since. During the war Dr. Davis was an aeronautical engineer in the air service and performed many services of much value in that connection...
Josiah Royce held the Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Poetry at Harvard between 1914 and 1916. Royce was a member of the American Academy, and the American Philosophical Society...
...University Professor Cooolidge bequeathed $150,000, to be held in trust as a fund under the name of "Coolidge Professorship," the income from which is to be devoted to the establishment and maintenance of a professorship in modern European or Asiatic history in the University. Harvard is to receive also a trust of $30,000, the income to be awarded annually to a student of history in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Subsequent to the bequest of other public and private gifts, the University will receive the residue of the estate, the income of which...
Charles Eliot Norton's unique place in the affections of Harvard men was indicated by Le Baron R. Briggs '75, dean of the College during the latter part of Norton's professorship, when he said recently that wherever Harvard men gathered 20 years ago two names were most often heard, those of N. S. Shaler '62, former professor of geology, and of Professor Norton...
...Harvard does not wish to start such a professorship, the money is to be used as a scholarship fund for Harvard students to study astronomy elsewhere, preferably at the Royal Geographical Society of England...