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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then taught at the college for two years. In 1938, as curator of Harvard's Nieman Fellowships, he shepherded the first group of newspapermen through their year at Cambridge. Last week Harvard invited MacLeish back for life. The Harvard Corporation picked him for the 178-year-old Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, first held by John Quincy Adams and later by such great teachers as LeBaron Russell Briggs (1904-25) and Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Invited Back | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Edwin H. Cohn became the first scientist ever to hold a University Professorship when President Conant announced his appointment last night. The post is one of the four top professorships at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cohn Named To University Professorship | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

Powell came to Harvard in 1925 after 18 years of teaching political science and law at Columbia. He was appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1928. Ten years later he received the Story Professorship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Powell Finishes 42-Year Teaching Career | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

Archibald MacLeish, Pulitzer Prize poet and former Librarian of Congress, is now being considered for the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, vacated three months ago by the death of Theodore Spencer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish Being Considered For Vacant Boylston Chair | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

...professorship was made possible by a bequest of the late Mrs. Mary McBurney Gardiner of New York. The gift was from the estate of her husband, William Howard Gardiner, which she held for her life tenancy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Albion to Get New Oceanic History Chair | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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