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Copland is now back at Harvard for the third times He is taking over the Charles Eliot Norton professorship this year after having replaced Walter Piston in 1935 after having held the Horatio Appleton Lamb chair in Music in 1944, Besides preparing the five Norton lectures and a half course in "Music in the '20's, "to be given this Spring, he is working on what he rather vaguely calls "a long piano piece." "You get a certain number of musical ideas; before they jell, you can't tell what it'll turn out to be." No more can Copland...
...Institute's affiliation with Harvard was a strange one (Professor Rice built it, payed the upkeep, and allowed the University to use it, receiving his professorship in return) but it also was a productive one. The Rice Institute housed all the equipment needed for any kind of map study, numerous maps of great value, an extremely competent staff, and one of the best lecture halls available for college use. Harvard could claim, along with the University of Chicago and Clark, one of the finest geography departments in the country, thanks to Professor Rice's Institute...
Author of two definitive works in the field of political parties in the United. States--"Politics, Parties, and Pressure Groups" and "Southern Politics"--Key still refuses to explain the reasons why he left a permanent professorship at Yale after spending only two years in New Haven...
...later. Before this period he went to work with an investment firm, but finding "that my childhood interest in all things to do with transportation had not diminished," he went back to graduate school. He became assistant professor of transportation in 1936 and ten years later received his Hill Professorship...
...addition to the Slade Professorship of Art at Oxford, Gombrich is also a lecturer at the Warburg Institute of the University of London...