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Walter H. Piston '24 has been named as the first man to hold the Walter W. Naumberg Professorship of Music. Professor Piston, a leading American composer, has received wide acclaim for his chamber and symphonic compositions. His latest work, the Third Symphony, was given its world premier by the Boston Symphony Orchestra last January...
...School, and in keeping with the School's "practical" air, he also manufactured the panacea which the above handbill advertises. His acid phosphate, along with other products, was so successful that he resigned in 1863 to devote himself entirely to manufacturing. In honor of his endowed chair, the Rumford Professorship, Horsford named his firm the Rumford Chemical Works...
Lamont's major gifts to the University included the Lamont University Professorship, for which he gave more than $500,000; the Theodore Williams Richard Professorship, over $100,000; and his most recent, the rising Lamont Library, for which he donated...
...averaged only about nine a year during the next decade. Just when the Corporation was wishing that it had gone into the anatomy business instead, it managed to secure the resignations of Parker and Stearns, got Nathan Dane, a leading Federalist politician, to give $10,000 for a Dane Professorship for Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and hired John Hooker Ashmun to serve as a full-time Royall Professor...
...gift from a retired New York banker will result in the establishment of a new teaching chair in the Music Department, to be known as the Walter W. Naumberg Professorship of Music...