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Prior to the First World War he served as an instructor in Geology here and at Radcliffe and Wellesley Colleges, and later held an associate professorship in the subject at the University of Kansas...
Professor Jean-Joseph Seznec has been appointed to the Smith Professorship of the French and Spanish Languages, held in the past by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell and J. D. M. Ford...
...religious scholars were predestined to go begging, Harvard divinity history portends the present low tide of endowments. It is true that the University owes its origin to the desire to feed Puritan pulpits and, significantly or not, the first faculty chair was the Holis Professorship of Divinity (1721); but the non-sectarian aspect of a Harvard divinity education can be identified with the College trend toward liberalism, as early as President Leverett's administration in the beginning of the eighteenth century. In fact, the Hollis chair, even though used for Congregationalist ends, was donated by a Baptist...
...guiding light of the Harvard Orchestra, the Sodality was also functional in creating the first Professorship of Music in America; assisted in founding the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and gave a parental nod to the Harvard Glee Club. During their first years together, members vocalized as often as they scraped G-strings and on the first anniversary of the Sodality, "a number of appropriate songs were sung.... The greatest order and harmony were observed." But constant mixing of song and sonata had its drawbacks, and in 1858 the Glee Club broke away, leaving its parent organization to roam its scales alone...
...year old professor came to Harvard in 1940 as a Junior Fellow. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1939. His appointment to the chair of Modern Irish History and Literature is the second professorship to be announced by the University in a week...