Word: professorships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Next logical development of the exchange professorship idea in our colleges should be the establishment of an exchange between institutions of the North and the South. Harvard has already its exchanges with Europe and with a group of four Western colleges. It is time that we should give like recognition to a great section of our country which has several institutions that are the peers of many in the North. It is all too little recognized here what merit such institutions as the University of Virginia, Tulane, and Vanderbilt represent. They can receive professors from the North in all respects...
...This increase alone would account for a large part of the extra yearly expenditure indicated in the above table. But besides the addition to the budget through accessions to the Faculty, the normal increase in cost must not be forgotten. An assistant professor upon promotion to a full professorship advances from $3,500 to $4,000. Every five years he receives $500 more until be reaches $5,500, the highest salary in the teaching force. As there are very few full professors less than 40 years of age, it will be seen that a teacher in Harvard cannot expect with...
...habilitated at Freiburg, in Baden, and in 1891 was made professor extraordinary there. An acquaintance with William James, whom he met at a psychological congress in Paris in 1889, led to a call to a professorship of experimental psychology in this University, and he began teaching here in the fall of 1892. The academic years 1895-96 and 1896-97 were spent in Freiburg again, on leave of absence, and on his return to Cambridge in 1897 he was appointed Professor of Psychology. Professor Muensterberg received the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1901, LL.D. from Washington University...
...hoped that Professor Wendell's new honors--the professorship emeritus and his membership in the Academy--may give him as much pleasure as he has given the University...
Since the death of Professor Royce, who held the Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity, in succession to Professor Palmer, it has been rumored that Bertrand Russell would be called from England to the chair made vacant by Professor Royce. It is certain that no such offer has ever been made to Mr. Russell, though he had been invited to lecture at Harvard during the present year. Whether or not such an offer ever will be made remains to be seen, but it does not seem likely that if Mr. Russell is called to Harvard...