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...last meeting of the Corporation, Mr. Bliss Perry was appointed Professor of English Literature, from March 1, 1907. This Professorship replaces and is in succession to the Professorship of Belles Lettres, which has hitherto been attached to the Smith Professorship of French and Spanish Languages. The previous incumbents of the combined Professorships have been George Ticknor from 1817 to 1835, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from 1836 to 1854, and James Russell Lowell from 1855 to 1866. Since the death of James Russell Lowell, the Professorship has been vacant...
...chief revision made by the subcommittee of the House Committee is to centre the power, hitherto too comprehensive for such a body, in the hands of a new Governing Board, and to invest the duties of the now abolished Membership Committee in the House Committee. This board shall have all powers not especially assigned to the house or the library committees. The meeting unanimously voted to accept the proposed changes provisionally...
...yesterday Fish and Corlett rowed for the first time in the second boat. In the first crew Flint was moved from three to bow, and his place was taken by Emmons. Whitney coxswained the second instead of Arnold. The crews rowed up to Brighton Bridge in longer stretches than hitherto...
...University gymnastic team will give an exhibition at Groton School this evening. The object of these preliminary exhibitions at the preparatory schools is to create interest there in gymnastics, and to prepare the team for the competitive meets later in the season. Hitherto the practice of the squad has consisted of individual work, but in the last week an attempt has been made to make the exhibition good as a whole...
...maximum of $5500; associate professors will receive $3500, to be increased to $4500; assistant professors who are still eligible to promotion to a professorship, or an associate professorship, will be appointed at $2500 in the first five-year term and $3000 in the second five-year term as hitherto; instructors will receive from now on $1200 upon appointment, and a yearly increase of $100, until the maximum $1500 for instructors is reaches, subject to previous contracts for higher salaries...