Word: professorship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Pierce was one of the most genial men and one of the most conscientious teachers imaginable, and he was a great scholar. He was one of the few men qualified to hold in modern days, as he did hold, a professorship of both mathematics and experimental physics. Professor Byerly, his colleague in the Department of Mathematics, once said of him that he knew more mathematics than any one else in the Department of Mathematics and more physics than any one else in the Department of Physics. And there was no one to gainsay this statement or to take offense...
...graduate of the University, whose name has not bee announced, has made an endowment for the establishment of a professorship of Latin-American History and Economics. The purpose of the course will be to familiarize students with the importance of American interests in the Latin-American republics and to give them a knowledge of the history and conditions existing in those countries. The income from this permanent, fund will be devoted to the salary of the professor chosen, and the surplus, if any, will be devoted to the purchase of books, to defraying the expenses of persons invited to speak...
...universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Copenhagen. He served his military term in the same regiment with Raymond Poincare, now president of France. After some years of teaching at the University of Lyons he joined the faculty of letters at the Sorbonne, where he at present holds his professorship. M. Baldensperger has written extensively for literary periodicals under the name of Fernand Baldenne. He is moreover the author of several collections of poems as well as some important works on comparative literature...
...explanation of certain poems of Alfred de Vigny which are related in form or thought with works of the well-known English and German poets. Professor Baldensperger is regarded as the greatest authority in France on de Vigny. He has the further distinction of holding the first ond only professorship of comparative literature in the Sorbonne...
...announcement of considerable interest was recently made in relation to exchange professorships in the University. A group of former Japanese students raised the sum of $25,000 during the past year and presented it to the University for the support of a new professorship of Japanese literature and life. Masahau Anezaki, professor of the science of religion in the Imperial University of Tokio, will act as professor in the new course, which will do much to broaden the knowledge of the Japanese nation and its literatures...