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...other sponsors had joined to raise $250,000 for a going-away present to Reinhold Niebuhr. the U.S.'s best-known theologian, retiring this month at 68 as vice president and senior faculty member of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. The gift: a Reinhold Niebuhr professorship of social ethics. Its first incumbent: Congregationalist John Coleman Bennett. 57, dean of the faculty and professor of applied Christianity at Union, who, like his friend Niebuhr. is deeply concerned with the century's social problems...
From Harvard last week came a muffled echo of Irving Babbitt, a scholar so querulously out of tune with his time (1865-1933) that something must have been wrong with the time. The news was a new Harvard chair, the Irving Babbitt Professorship of Comparative Literature, to be occupied by one of Babbitt's last Harvard students, Critic Harry Levin, 47 (James Joyce: A Critical Introduction). It was an honor proposed by another former Babbitt student. Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey. Countless other students, 'from Poet T. S. Eliot to Pundit Walter Lippmann, would doubtless second...
Edward M. Purcell, Noble prize winner in physics, will be the first Gerhard Gade University Professor, increasing the ranks of university professors to seven. Harry T. Levin '33 will assume on July 1 the Irving Babbitt Professorship of Comparative Literature, a new chair named after the literary critic and French professor who taught Levin while at College...
...Gade University Professorship was made possible by a gift in the will of the late Gerhard Gade '21, a career Foreign Service officer...
...Lowell Professorship was established in 1956, at the same time as were the Ford Professorships...