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Lanky, steely Dr. Leonard Carmichael's odd stepping stone to academic promotion is research in sensory psychology and physiology. Only 18 month's ago he left a professorship and the psychology laboratory at Brown University for the deanship of the arts and sciences faculty and a new laboratory, built especially for him, at the University of Rochester. A graduate of Tufts College and a Harvard Ph.D.. Dr. Carmichael had taught also at Princeton, Harvard and Clark University, but won renown for research, not teaching. Last week Researcher Carmichael, only 39, became a college president. He will take...
...Stagg and two years as head coach at Minnesota before going to Princeton in 1932. He had rescued Princeton football from temporary ignominy, developed two undefeated, untied teams (1933 and 1935). To make the position attractive enough, Michigan last week offered Crisler not only its coaching job but a professorship (Physical Education) and the post of assistant to Athletic Director Yost, now 67 and almost ready to retire. With the guarantee of inheriting a stable athletic berth. Coach Crisler succumbed...
...will deliver at least six public lectures here this spring. The holder of the professorship is permitted to speak upon any phase of poetry, the term being interpreted to include all poetic expression in language, music, or the fine arts...
Exact opposite of most presidents who quarrel with their trustees, hard-fisted Tyler Dennett claimed they were wasting money. When Alumnus Dennett ('04) went back to Williams three years ago from a professorship at Princeton's School of Public & International Affairs to succeed President Harry Augustus Garfield, son of the 20th President of the U. S., he was shocked to find that his small, patrician college was piling up steady deficits. President Dennett installed a budget system, launched a money-raising program for Williams' library, laboratories, teachers' salaries, scholarships. But he found 73-year-old Senior...
When Harvard's President James Bryant Conant first broached his idea of establishing "roving professorships'' whose holders could cut across rigid departmental divisions and fertilize the whole university, he told his friends that he was thinking of no imaginary scholar but of Harvard's own restlessly roving William James (art-to-medicine-to-psychology-to-philosophy). A year ago Harvardman Thomas William Lament responded with a $500,000 endowment for a roving professorship, and President Conant last year indicated that he would finance a few more from the $5,500,000 Harvard received at its Tercentenary...