Word: chair
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...from Harvard University, and LL.D. from Williams College. After four years of literary work in England, he returned to this country in 1888 and was appointed an instructor of History in the University. Gradually working higher, in 1901 he became a professor, and in 1908 was tendered the chair of the Gurney Professor of History and Political Science...
Joseph Bedier, delegate from the College de France; a scholar who adds lustre to a famous chair; a Frenchman, inspired by the literary splendors of his country, who has illuminated the origins of French romance...
These names will be engraved on the scrub baseball chair, which is placed in the front hall of the Union...
...Oxford University conferred on him the degree of Litt.D. He was appointed Privat-dozent in ancient history at the University of Leipzig in 1879. In 1884 Professor Meyer was named Ausserordentlicher Professor of ancient history in that university, and in the following year he accepted the chair of ancient history at the University of Breslau. He remained there for four years, and then went to the University of Halle, where he remained until 1902, in which year he was made professor of ancient history at the University of Berlin, the position which he now holds...
...Homes was graduated from Harvard in 1829, then studied law and later medicine, taking a doctor's degree in 1836 after several years' work in European hospitals. In 1838 he became Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth, and in 1847 was called to take the same chair in the Medical School, which position he held for thirty-five years. Dr. Holmes was not only a doctor, but a good photographer, somewhat of an artist, a far famed poet, wit, and man of letters. His works are familiar to all, the best known being "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," "Elsie...