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...Coolidge Professorship was established in 1928 through a bequest of Archibald C. Coolidge, historian at Harvard, Professor Coolidge was an enthusiast in the field of European studies and aided in the formation of a Slavic collection in the Harvard Library...
Lars V. Ahlfors has been named the first William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics. The new Professorship honors the memory of a former Harvard professor, one of the great American geometers of his generation...
...Family. Wilson won scientific credentials aplenty - a B.S. from M.I.T. (1916), an M.I.T. associate professorship in chemical engineering, 90 patents for petrochemical inventions, 120 scientific papers. But even more winning was his impact on other men. Presenting him with the Society of Chemical Industry's Perkin Medal in 1943, American Chemical Society President Thomas Midgley Jr. couldn't help recalling an 1895 picnic in Beaver Falls, Pa., where both he and Wilson were born. Midgley was being bullied by a gang of "incipient hoodlums." Up came Mrs. Wilson with two-year-old Bobby. "Kick the naughty boys," commanded...
...suggest that Horace Judson relinquish his job with TIME to take a professorship in English, teaching the honors program. His keen insight as a critic of Faulkner resulted in one of the best estimates of that writer I've ever read. It is a masterpiece...
...Securities and Exchange Commission, top cop of the U.S. stock markets, was led into its most active role in many years by its current chairman, William L. Gary. Ever since Gary made known his desire to return to his Columbia law professorship by this fall...