Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard achieved early dominance in the teaching of public speaking in the United States. The first speech professorship in this country, the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, was created here in the early Nineteenth Century. After a distinguished beginning, speech training fell into academic disrepute among American colleges. This loss of prestige was caused by the rise of the "elocutionary movement," which stressed speech delivery and overlooked content...
Paul H. Buck, director of the University Library, will occupy a newly-estabished University Professorship, President Pusey announced yesterday...
This new position, the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professorship, was established to emphasize the importance of the library and the library director in the University, the announcement said...
...announcement, Pusey lauded the library director. "It is deeply satisfying to have a University Professorship associated with the great library which is the center of our University," he said...
Dawson, who remarked that he was "accustomed to English country life," stated that this was his first visit to the United States. He had been asked to lecture in this country before, but had refused the offers. Asked why he accepted the Stillman professorship, he replied that the offer was "extremely attractive" and that "there is no such chair in any of the English universities...