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...Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy was endowed in 1727, and under President Holyoke the curriculum was modernized and new texts introduced. Holyoke's most essential reform, however, was doing away with the old system of each tutor taking a class through all subjects in the curriculum. Instead, he made each tutor a specialist in charge of instruction in a given area...
...member of the Stanford University faculty has been appointed to a full professorship in the Harvard History Department, Dean McGeorge Bundy announced yesterday. H. Stuart Hughes, an authority on Modern Italy, will join the faculty here on July...
...with Russia. But because of its independence, Harvard is the most logical institution to initiate cultural trade. State universities, for the most part under the control of conservative state legislatures, are certainly in no position to take up the Russian gauntlet. For Harvard, on the other hand, a visiting professorship from Moscow could prove to be quite a coup, not only as an assertion of a rational approach to the Communistic threat, but as a valuable addition to the Cambridge community...
...endowed chair for a professorship in dramatic arts should be established at Harvard, with the holder of the chair also the chairman of the theatre program and the director of the Harvard Theatre. The report also suggested that a second faculty member be appointed to serve as a designer-technician "to aid in maintaining a high quality of theatre...
...professorship is a new one, created under the will of Barker, a Roxbury manufacturer. Barker, who lived in Cambridge, worked with members of the Faculty on economic studies before his death...