Word: professorships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Erwin Panofsky, an outstanding authority on the history of world art, has received the appointment for the coming year to the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry here. The chair has been vacant since...
Born in Paris of Swiss parents, Henry Sigerist was brought to the U.S. and a Johns Hopkins professorship in 1931 by the late grand old man of medicine, William Henry Welch, first dean of Johns Hopkins' Medical School. To most U.S. physicians, Sigerist is best known as the nation's ablest, and most respected, champion of socialized medicine (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939). But social medicine is only one of his interests. Since coming to Hopkins, he has carried a heavy teaching schedule, directed Hopkins' Welch Memorial Library, reorganized health services in Saskatchewan and India, translated old writings...
Zemurray's gift, as announced yesterday by Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe College, established a chair to be know as the Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe professorship. The presentation was made in honor of the donor's son, a Business School graduate killed in the war, and his sister, a graduate of Radcliffe...
Hatcher fired a dean who had once opposed his promotion to a full professorship. Then he forced out able Dr. Beryl lies Burns, dean of L.S.U.'s crack medical school, and 27 staff doctors quit in protest (TIME, Nov. 12, 1945). His campus enemies called Hatcher "William the Conqueror," and many left rather than be conquered. Last week 58-year-old President Hatcher himself quit. Reason: ill health...
...William T. Green has been named Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and will in addition assume the responsibilities of director of orthopaedic surgery at the Children's Hospital. Dr. Joseph S. Barr has been appointed to a professorship identical to Dr. Green's and will also act as the director of orthopaedic surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital...