Word: professorships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helen Mand Cam will become the first woman ever to hold a full professorship on the Harvard Faculty next fall, when she moves here from Cambridge University, England, to take the newly-founded Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professorship...
Richard D. Ellmann, instructor in English, will receive a Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professorship of English in June, the University announced last week. Ellmann, a poet and literary critic, will publish a book of criticism this summer...
...recent decision to wipe out Geography as a field of concentration, the excuse put forth was that "Harvard cannot hope to have strong departments in everything." At the moment when Geography threatened to become a strong department, in fact, it was eliminated. An associate professorship was proposed for Assistant Professor Edward A. Ackerman. When the Corporation turned down his appointment, thus halting the trend toward a strong department, the Division of Earth Sciences eliminated Geography for its inadequate staff...
Walter H. Piston '24 has been named as the first man to hold the Walter W. Naumberg Professorship of Music. Professor Piston, a leading American composer, has received wide acclaim for his chamber and symphonic compositions. His latest work, the Third Symphony, was given its world premier by the Boston Symphony Orchestra last January...
...chair, established by a gift of Walter W. Naumberg '89, retired New York banker, Professor Piston will continue to teach orchestration and composition to University students. His promotion leaves one vacant professorship in the Music Department...