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...opening in History 61b came two years ago when Arthur M. Schlesinger, then Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, retired. Starting next year, the course will be given by Frank Freidel, who will receive a full professorship in American History, according to Gilmore...
...professorship is held annually by an individual of distinguished achievement in the fine arts. Last year the position remained unfilled when none of those invited were able to accept. Past holders include T. S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, e. e. cummings, Robert Frost, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, and Aaron Copland...
About two million dollars of the gifts are for current use and the rest will be put into the endowment fund. The largest single donation was from the estate of Philip H. Cook '99, who established a professorship of radiology at the Medical School with a gift...
President Pusey, speaking at the dinner, thanked the association for deciding to establish the chair here. He said this professorship, first in the field in the United States, will be important because Armenian culture is "permeated with prefound religious and literary values...
...went on to get his Ph.D. at the University of Berlin, taught there for a year, and then, at the age of 27, was named Professor of Philology at the University of Basel, Switzerland--the same chair that Nietzsche had occupied. From there he returned to Germany and a professorship at the University of Kiel, and then--at the amazingly young age of 34--he was named full Professor of Philology back at the University of Berlin. Two years later he was elected to the exclusive Berlin Academy, at whose meetings he and Albert Einstein became good friends. In this...