Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Establishing the Asa Gray professorship of systematic botany...
...late James Russell Lowell, during his term of service in the Smith Professorship, made a large collection of books in the Romance Languages, mainly in Old French and Spanish. In his will be gave from this collection such books as were not already to be found on the shelves of the Harvard College Library, but the greater part of the collection remained in the hands of his heirs. This part consists of over seven hundred volumes, many of them of great interest to the student of Romance Languages, not only of course by reason of their intrinsic value, but also...
Professor Clifford H. Moore who graduated from Harvard 1889 and afterwards obtained a Ph.D. and a Professorship in Germany will conduct or assist in conducting Greek 2, Latin B, 2 and C, and two courses in the "Religion and Worship of the Greeks and Romans...
Harvard men will take pleasure in reading this morning of Professor Norton's appointment to an emeritus professorship of the History of Art, and of the promotions of Assistant Professor Wendell and Mr. C. P. Parker. We feel that in congratulating these gentlemen who have thus received recognition of valued service at the hands of the Board of Overseers, we can but be expressing the sentiment of the whole University...
...return from Germany, in 1851, he was made University Professor of Latin, as the successor of Professor Beck, who had held this office since 1832. In 1869 he was made Pope Professor of Latin. He resigned this professorship in 1894, after a continuous service of 43 years. He was then made Pope Professor of Latin, Emeritus; and at the Commencement of 1894 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University. After his retirement he gave valuable instruction in Latin to some of the most advanced students of the Graduate School. His two periods of service...