Word: professorships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...president, James Russell Lowell, who introduced the first speaker of the evening, President Eliot. Mr. Eliot, after welcoming the members of the association to Harvard, went on to compare the instruction given in modern languages in college now and in former times. He said that the Smith professorship, founded in 1816, was the first professorship of modern languages in the country. It has been held by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowell. Since its foundation this branch of study has been on an equality with mathematics and the classics. The staff of instructors has constantly been growing...