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...professorships will be created with money left to the College earlier this month by Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter. One may be a "University" professorship-a chair free of attachment to any single field, and carrying with it the highest academic distinction Harvard can offer...
...That the professorship be of University rank was requested, but not required. Mrs. Porter's sole stipulation was that whatever its rank, the chair should be for only humanists or social scientists. In particular, she mentioned the fine arts, music, philosophy, and literature...
...also set up a $400,000 trust fund for an 89-year old sister. After the sister dies, this money will revert to the University and from it the Corporation intends to create the second professorship...
...Porter was the wife of Harvard archeologist A. Kingsley Porter, and she asked that the humanities-social sciences professorship he named after him. If the chair is made a University professorship, it will be the twelfth of this kind. Among the current holders of University professorships are Paul H. Buck, I. A. Richards, Paul A. Freund, and Edward M. Purcell, Paul J. Tillich held a University professorship until his retirement last June...
...urged seminaries to stamp out "theological views which would undermine such faith in the historical accuracy and doctrinal integrity of the Bible." A fortnight ago, carrying out that mandate, the trustees of Kansas City's Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary "reluctantly and regretfully" fired Ralph Elliott from his professorship there...