Word: professorships
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Caroline Plummer endowed the Plummer professorship in 1854 in order to support "a Professor of the Philosophy of the heart, and of the moral, physical and christian life in Harvard University...
Imagine a coalition of dictatorships. They want to buy Harvard a brand-new Center for the Study of Dictatorships. They want to name a professorship after Saddam Hussein. And they would pay for everything. Surely Harvard could find a plot of land on its expanding campus and some eager young professors to teach the courses...
...Turkish government "provided additional support for the professorship," the Gazette says...
Elsewhere, professorships funded by the Turkish government have been controversial. At Princeton, the Ataturk Professorship in Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies has drawn strong reaction from alumni, according to Princeton's daily newspaper...
...recent gift of $2.5 in endowment funds from His Highness The Aga Khan '58 will fund The Aga Khan Professorship of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Islamic Societies at the Graduate School of Design...