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...department plans to create a new professorship if it can raise enough money for an endowment...
...Harvard junior faculty is based on a three-year instructorship followed by a five-year assistant professorship." This remark is totally misleading unless one realizes that Harvard is the only school in the country requiring a Ph.D. in hand for all instructors. In all other major universities (Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Berkeley), a man who actually holds the Ph.D. automatically becomes an assistant professor. Therefore, Harvard instructors (all of whom must have Ph.D.s) would be assistant professors at any other university and would consequently earn higher salaries...
...Porter Professorship -- honoring the late Harvard archaeologist -- was bequeathed to the University by Mrs. Porter on her death in 1963. Poerter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts when he died in 1933, caused important revisions in the history of medieval architecture through his archaeological research...
Dean Ford yesterday compared the committee to the Committee of Eight, a 1939 group including Felix Frankfurter and Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., which completely revamped the junior faculty structure. The Eight established the instructorship-assistant professorship sequence which has been the basis of junior faculty appointments for the past 28 years...
Lamont came from a family that had already established a tradition of service to Harvard. His father helped finance the main undergraduate library, and members of the family established the Florence Corliss Lamont Professorship of Divinity in memory of Lamont's mother...