Word: chair
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...occupied it. It was endowed in 1789 by Edmund Trowbridge, of the class of 1728, and Richard Cary of 1763, executors of the will of John Alford who died in 1761. The first two holders of the title were Levi Frisbie and Levi Hedge. James Walker, 1814, occupied the chair from 1838 to 1853 when he was elected President of the University. Francis Bowen '33 followed him. In 1859 George Herbert Palmer '64 was appointed: after the retirement of the latter, in 1913, as Professor Emeritus. Josiah Royce took the position. The chair has been unoccupied since his death...
...several hundred thousand dollars a few years ago, died last Saturday, October 25. Dr. Oliver had all through his life been very interested in matters of student health at this University. This interest led him in his later years to give his entire fortune to the establishment of the chair of Hygiene, now occupied by Dr. Roger Irving...
...during his life Dr. Oliver has shown great interest in student hygiene. His intention in establishing a chair of hygiene here was to bring the undergraduate body in closer contact with sound medical advice, both in times of illness and in times of good health...
...were to admit personalities as scientific or argumentative (which Heaven forbid), we might conceivably, as a pastime, consider the Morris-chair and bedroom-slipper variety of economist in the same breath with the statesman and economist who is building a great nation on a new co-operative principle, might we not, and declare our peculiar preference? J. LESLIE HOTSON...
...this year have enrolled in courses dealing with international commercial problems offered in the Graduate School of Business Administration, is the opinion of Professor George B. Roorbach, as expressed in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Professor Roorbach has come to the University to occupy the chair of Foreign Trade recently established in the Business School...