Word: professorship
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...selecting Steiner for the Norton professorship, the search committee lauded his “remarkable fluency in many languages, and his deep learning in the literatures and philosophies of various cultures,” and both qualities were clearly on display last night...
...held both positions for 28 years and retained his professorship until his retirement...
Because Fineberg will serve a six-year term, he will have to give up his Harvard professorship...
...School: The seal of the law school features the arms of Isaac Royall, who founded the first professorship. His arms, as shown on his bookplate, were azure with three sheaves of gold...
...friends and sometimes they're your worst enemies." Estrich, who was the first female president of the Harvard Law Review, recalls that there was only one female law professor at Harvard at that time. "She used to almost consistently vote against any woman whose name came up for a professorship," says Estrich. "She'd look at us and say 'There are no women qualified to teach here.'" Estrich believes that this sort of "queen bee" behavior results from "a sense of insecurity, a sense that your success will come at my expense, that somehow if I'm not the only...