Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David Rockefeller '36 has established a professorship of Oriental art in honor of his mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He provided endowment of the professorship as part of his contribution to the Program for Harvard College...
...announcing the new professorship, President Pusey noted that both at Harvard and in Boston are libraries and collections of Oriental art which attract scholars from all over the world. He expected that the occupant of the new chair would make significant contributions at a time when travel to the Far East is limited...
...practice, the Ad Hoc Committee frequently fails to limit a department's tendency to become ingrown with like minded and similarly trained men. Departments oft-times make it clear to the Committee which man they want for the job. A "fair haired" young man is groomed for a particular professorship so that the Ad Hoc Committee simply approves a choice made by the department years before. There are few professors who do not have definite opinions about who should be the new man in the department or who should be their successor. Fewer still are those who maintain silence about...
There are, of course, definite advantages to training a Harvard man at Harvard for a Harvard professorship. Such a man will certainly know what the faculty, department, and students expect of him. This system will perpetuate the department's high standards, but it will also perpetuate some undesirable ones. To avoid a closed room type of intellectual atmosphere, a department could demand that its members spend at least a year teaching at other universities. At present, when a junior faculty members accepts an appointment at another university, he is rarely considered a few years later for a professorship--even...
...professorship was given by members of his family...