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Facing the Corporation at this or its next fortnightly meeting will be the problem of appointing men to fill two vacant chairs in the English Department. These are the Francis Lee Higginson Professorship, recently vacated by John L. Lowes '05, and the Gurney Professorship of English Literature, rumored vacated by Fred N. Robinson...
...believed that the probable recipient of the Francis Lee Higginson professorship will be Professor Rollins, who has taken over all of Professor Lowes' courses. Rumor also names Professor Magoun, who will take Professor Robinson's courses, or Professor Murdock to succeed to the Gurney professorship...
...terms of the will call for the establishment of a professorship of Arabic at the University. The chair will bear the name of Mrs. Jewett's husband, James R. Jewett, former Harvard professor...
After excellent training abroad and a brief career as an organ virtuoso, Paine became director of music here in 1862. When President Eliot took over the reins in 1869, music was given an especially important role in the revised curriculum. In 1875 Paine was promoted to a full professorship, which was the first chair in music at an American university. As a composer, he was especially versatile, turning out many symphonies, tone poems, operas, overtures, and cantatas. In the present display are included copies of his "Columbus March and Hymn" for the 1893 World's Fair, his "Harvard Hymn...
...University of Chicago has provided a professorship for Eduard Benes-as Washington College at Lexington, Va. provided one for Lee- as soon as Czechoslovakia's last President will take it. But the tired little man was seriously ill. His ears were being treated for an ailment which has affected his sense of balance...