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...department's offerings is an expansive proposition. But under the system which governs Comp. Lit. in the University, all other listings in the division of Modern Languages are filled first, and whenever a qualified professor has room on his schedule, he is loaned to Comp. Lit. The one professorship in the department is divided between two men, each of whom has one foot in another department. Consequently Comparative Literature sputters along., with one or at most two middle group courses given each term...
Edmund Morris Morgan. Morgan is stopping out of the Royall professorship of Law, the oldest law chair in the University. To students he was a short, slight, kindly man who underwent a schizophrenic change in the classroom which they claim he turned into "medieval horror chambers" by devilish cross examinations on court procedure...
William Augustus Hinton. Dr. Hinton, when he was appointed Clinical Professor of Baoteriology and Immunology last year became the first Negro ever to hold a full professorship at Harvard. He spent his 25 years on the Harvard medical faculty almost exclusively in research on venereal diseases. Hinton helped perfect the Wasserman and developed the Hinton and the Davies-Hinton-tests for syphillis...
Bridgman will hold a Higgins University Professorship; support for this post 0will come from the Eugene Higgins Trust, a $34,000,000 fund established in 1948 for the support of scientific education and research at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton...
Biochemist Edwin H. Cohn, appointed to a University Professorship last May, also became a Higgins University Professor yesterday in recognition of the support the Higgins Trust gives Cohn's work...