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Reports in Washington Wednesday said that Kennan would resign his present position as U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia by this summer to accept the University's offer to the prestigious professorship...
...Mullin, a burly, bespectacled physiologist with a West Texas drawl, came from a professorship at the University of Chicago medical school to become president of Shimer. By virtue of having taught doctors, he had one driving conviction-that professional men by and large are too narrowly educated, and need a broad liberal schooling before going into graduate schools...
...Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity), Dix went on to influence Max Beckmann and Georg Grosz with his sharp-edged, magical realism that applied the techniques of the old masters to the social misery of the anarchic Weimar Republic. With Hitler's rise, Dix was ousted from his professorship in art at the Academy of Art in Dresden, forbidden to paint, finally pressed into the potbellied Volks-sturm, a sort of last-ditch militia. He was captured by the French while snoozing in the sun one spring afternoon...
...working within the university community is, Mr. Fleming feels, a dying point of view. In contrast to the Harvard of pre-World War II days, "when professors were basically academics and their primary role was teaching and research," he believes that today many faculty members value a Harvard professorship because of its value elsewhere. "Professors now have a great variety of temptations," he says, adding wryly, "you must remember its more prestigious being a Harvard professor outside than being one here...
Officially known as the Plummer Professorship of Christian Morals, the post has lain open for three years. During this time visiting preachers and an acting minister, the Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson, have filled the pulpit. It has been rumored that a new University preacher may be appointed by President Pusey sometime this spring...