Word: professorships
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...witty compendium of universal fact and theory, Norris is also a not able Aberdeen Angus cattle raiser and barbershop tenor. Co-author of The World and America is Folklorist Carl Carmer (Listen for a Lonesome Drum), a specialist in local American history ever since he left a northern professorship to teach at the University of Alabama...
...revised and updated Kent's famed legal Commentaries. Then he slaved on a work of his own, The Common Law, in which words like "logic," "rule," "syllogism" were replaced by such unlegal expressions as "experience," "expediency," "necessity," "life." Soon Harvard's admiring President Eliot offered Holmes a professorship of law. A year later Holmes took his seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court Bench. "So you are the son of the celebrated Oliver Wendell Holmes?" asked an Englishman after Holmes became Massachusetts Chief Justice. "No," replied Holmes. "He was my father...
Charles H. McIlwain, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in American History in 1924, has been appointed to the George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford University, it was announced Tuesday. He will probably leave within the next two weeks, although the exact date of his departure is unknown. McIlwain's specific functions at Oxford have not yet been revealed...
...professorship McIlwain is to fill has been vacant since 1940, when it was suspended because of the war. Dr. Frank Aydelotte, President of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars, reports that the work in being resumed at the request of Oxford authorities...
After graduating from Princeton in 1894, and taking a master's degree at Harvard in 1903, McIlwain taught at Princeton and elsewhere. He came to Harvard as Assistant Professor of History and Government in 1911, and reached the full professorship in 1916; he has held the Eaton chair since...