Word: professorships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found less interesting than the study of legal theory, he re-entered the academic world, first as a prep-school Latin instructor and track coach, then as a history professor at Miami (Ohio), Princeton, and Bowdoin. He came to Harvard in 1911 and in 1926 he received the Eaton Professorship...
Still in the throes of re-conversion, the History Department filled two of its empty chairs last week by the appointment of Clarence Crane Brinton '19 to the McLean Professorship in Ancient and Modern History, and Frederick Merk, chairman of the Department, as Gurney Professor of History and Political Science...
...University promptly offered him a lectureship-but war broke before he could take it. Harvard, properly impressed, Lend-Leased him as a "visiting professor" from Cambridge. Last week, Harvard, which has been increasingly impressed by Ted Spencer since then, appointed him, at 44, to the prestigious, 140year-old Boylston Professorship of "Rhetoric & Oratory (first chairholder: John Quincy Adams; last: Poet Robert S. Hillyer...
...With the tremendous desire for guidance in writing which has been discovered among returning veterans," he went on to say, "the Boylston professorship should become a focus for building up such facilities." He envisions an integrated structure of composition courses, starting with English A-1, working through a middle group of courses, and through a middle group of courses, and culminating in English...
Professor Cunningham became a lecturer on Railroad Operation in 1908. By 1915 he had risen to a full professorship in Transportation and the next year he received the James J. Hill chair in that field...