Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violin. Curiously, she could not (and still cannot) carry a tune. This failure almost cost her the chance to study at the Pesaro conservatory, but her fiddling got her by, and in two years she had carried away all available prizes. At 17 she won a violin professorship at the Bari conservatory...
...bookish, spectacled Professor Sweet is considered something of a revolutionary: he thinks that elementary Latin teaching is all wrong, and he is doing his best to prove it. He preached his doctrine at Philadelphia's William Penn Charter School, finally won a professorship at Michigan. Last year the Carnegie Corporation decided to let him carry his crusade even further, gave him a grant for a special summer Latin workshop...
...quite a birthday present: $250,000 from John D. Rockefeller III to establish the Harry Emerson Fosdick visiting professorship at Union Theological Seminary. At Union's annual alumni dinner this week, President Henry P. Van Dusen announced the gift and its terms: "To honor Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick for his distinguished contributions as teacher, preacher, writer and counselor, and to strengthen the training of the . . . leaders of the Christian church so as to enable them in their generation, as Dr. Fosdick has in his generation, to interpret the abiding truths and experiences of Christian faith...
Westheimer, who earned his Ph.D. here in 1934, will teach Department Chairman Paul D. Bartlett's courses, allowing Bartlett to accept the Wallace H. Carothers Research Professorship for a year...
...Corporation has established a new professorship of Music in honor of the late philanthropist and patron of music, Miss Fanny P. Mason, Provost Buck announced yesterday. A. Tillman Merritt, professor of Music, has been named to fill the new chair...