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...confession, subsequent to the trial, Webster admitted to most of the details of the crime which had been pieced together. Parkman had come into the room with papers showing Webster how the Doctor had gotten him his professorship, and threatening to remove him from it. In a fit of anger at this, Webster picked up a wooden club and hit Parkman once on the head. He died immediately, and Webster saw that he would have to get rid of the body quickly. Until his death, however, he maintained that his crime was unpremeditated. He was executed by hanging in August...
...last of the three new chairs, the Florence Corliss Lamont Professorship of Divinity, will be occupied by Paul Lehmann, Parkman Professor of Theology. The Parkman Professorship, which was created in 1829 and is one of the University's oldest professorial chairs, will be filled by John Dillenberger, associate professor of Theology...
Hollis, who also endowed the Hollis without some charitable assistance." Professorship of Divinity and the Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, further wished that the administration "avoid nominating now and hereafter Dunces or Rakes as Persons not fit to partake of my Bounty...
Steyskal, who was at the Divinity School in 1953-54, made the threat on grounds that the University refused to grant him a professorship to teach religion. He had been writing to get a position for a year and a half...
When the University granted Mrs. Gaposchkin a full professorship, many of her students and colleagues felt that the honor was long overdue. She considers her promotion not so much a personal honor, but an indication of women's advance in all academic fields. She explains that she feels a particular responsibility to make a success of her new position in order to pave the way for other women with high aspirations...