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...committee is not in a position to do anything right now," Maass said. "Even if we decide there should be a geography department or a permanent professorship, there is no guarantee that the necessary funds will be forthcoming," he explained...
...Philadelphia the University of Pennsylvania's President Gaylord P. Harnwell pondered the pixyish offer from a local lawyer and his clients to put up $500,000 for an endowed professorship of taxation, finally announced that his school had no intention of honoring the name of the late Mobster Al Capone with this particular chair...
...internationally-known scholar, Ford attained the Smith professorship in 1907 and held it until his retirement...
...Lowell chair is supported by the same Ford Foundation grant which supported the Henry Ford II Professorship, now occupied by David Riesman. Both posts were established...
Harvard achieved early dominance in the teaching of public speaking in the United States. The first speech professorship in this country, the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, was created here in the early Nineteenth Century. After a distinguished beginning, speech training fell into academic disrepute among American colleges. This loss of prestige was caused by the rise of the "elocutionary movement," which stressed speech delivery and overlooked content...