Word: physical
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...most part of the Law School Faculty prior to 1879. On the center of the south wall is the group of the Royall family painted by Feke. Isaac Royall was a Boston merchant who, dying in 1781, provided in his will for a Harvard professorship of law or physic. It was not, however, until 1815 that the Corporation, which had chosen to establish a professorship of law, was able to do so. The Royall Professorship is, next to the Vinerian at Oxford, the oldest named professorship of law in the English-speaking world. The picture has the distinction of being...