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...leave it alone, Professor Pound proceeded to devote himself to the teaching of Law, an occupation which has busied him for the last 47 years, including 36 years at Harvard. Professor Pound, who resigned as Dean of the Law School in 1936, plans to retire from his University professorship at the end of this year. "I'm going to retire before people start asking me why I don't," he says...
...Daily Mail, endowed a chair at Oxford. Its purpose: to acquaint Britons with their recent American allies. Since 1922 such sober, unsensational U.S. historians as Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison, Princeton's Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker and Columbia's Allan Nevins have occupied the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship of American History. Last week a 29-year-old, crewcut veteran of World War II sailed for England to become the new Harmsworth professor, as well as the first U.S. Rhodes Scholar ever named to an Oxford chair...
...President. By 1927 Conant's researches in the borderland between organic and physical chemistry had earned him a solid scientific reputation, and the California Institute of Technology invited him to set up a new biological chemistry department. Anxious to keep Conant, Harvard promoted him to a full professorship, a few years later made him chairman of the chemistry department...
Lecturer Kiukeldy has had a long and fascinating career in the musical world. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin, them went on to become a professor of Musicology at University of Breslan in 1910, earning the distinction of being the first American to hold a professorship in a German university...
Although Westergaard has left his post as dean he will not become inactive, but will retain the Gordon McKay professorship of Civil Engineering, a chair which he has held since...