Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose of the Ford Professorship is to provide for the appointment of distinguished men from different fields of knowledge to enrich the academic life in the College...
...confession, subsequent to the trial, Webster admitted to most of the details of the crime which had been pieced together. Parkman had come into the room with papers showing Webster how the Doctor had gotten him his professorship, and threatening to remove him from it. In a fit of anger at this, Webster picked up a wooden club and hit Parkman once on the head. He died immediately, and Webster saw that he would have to get rid of the body quickly. Until his death, however, he maintained that his crime was unpremeditated. He was executed by hanging in August...
...last of the three new chairs, the Florence Corliss Lamont Professorship of Divinity, will be occupied by Paul Lehmann, Parkman Professor of Theology. The Parkman Professorship, which was created in 1829 and is one of the University's oldest professorial chairs, will be filled by John Dillenberger, associate professor of Theology...
Hollis, who also endowed the Hollis without some charitable assistance." Professorship of Divinity and the Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, further wished that the administration "avoid nominating now and hereafter Dunces or Rakes as Persons not fit to partake of my Bounty...
Steyskal, who was at the Divinity School in 1953-54, made the threat on grounds that the University refused to grant him a professorship to teach religion. He had been writing to get a position for a year and a half...