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...treat religion as a subject for study, like languages or history. Puritan-founded Yale, for example, which once banned even Episcopalians, now has a wide-ranging program of religious studies. Symbolic of the times, Yale last week announced a new chair for Roman Catholic studies-the first such permanent professorship at any non-sectarian U.S. university...
Holder of Yale's new T. Lawrason Riggs Professorship in Religion, a $500,000 chair set up by anonymous alumni in honor of a longtime Yale Catholic chaplain, is Stephen G. Kuttner, now at Catholic University in Washington, the nation's only lay professor of canon law and a model of the small-c catholic manner. The son of a Jewish mother, German-born Lawyer Kuttner, 56, grew up as a Lutheran, became a Catholic after fleeing the Nazis in 1933. He learned canon law as a refugee researcher in the Vatican library, became one of the world...
...appointed Harvard's first University Professor in 1937, on retiring from the Law School. Since leaving the University professorship in 1947, Pound has published about 250 books and articles, including a Ive-volume work on jurisprudence...
...professorship of Government or public Administration in kennedy's name will be a natural thing someday," Pusey said, "but the library must have priority...
After the war, at Harvard Law he caught the eye of Professor Milton Katz who took him to Paris as a special assistant at the burgeoning Marshall Plan headquarters, later helped him get his first teaching job-an assistant law professorship at Harvard...