Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University received $1,584,000 of the money given for permanent endowment without restrictions on its use. The Medical School received $243,000, including $255,000 from Charles E. Merrill to endow the Samuel Levine professorship. $190,000 went to the University Library from the estate of William T. Morse...
...York investment banker Charles E. Merrill has given the University $400,000 to endow a medical school professorship of cardio-vascular and heart diseases, George P. Berry, Dean of the Medical School, announced yesterday...
Merrill, a senior partner in the investment firm of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, has instituted the professorship in honor of a leading heart specialist, Dr. Samuel A. Levine '10. Levine is a personal friend of Merrill's who, the financier said, "has helped me to a great degree from time to time--indeed, I believe he has saved my life...
When Berry made the announcement of the professorship, he said that Merrill's endowment has made secure Harvard's leadership in the field of heart conditions, "one of the most significant areas of medicine for some time to come...
...Cushing came to Harvard as Professor of Surgery and remained in that post until 1932, when he reached Harvard's retirement age of 62. When Dr. Thomas F. Fulton, Professor of Physiology at the Yale Medical School, heard of his retirement, he rushed to Boston to offer him a professorship in Neurology at Yale. Cushing immediately accepted...