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...past seven years, income for the school has been derived from two sources, a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and an endowment by James F. Curtis '99 for a Charles Dyer Norton Professorship of Regional Planning. Anticipating the expiration of the Rockefeller grant in September 1936, the university presented to the Foundation a proposed program for continuing the work of the school coupled with a proposed set of financial arrangements under which the work would be carried on. The financial plan proved unacceptable to the Foundation, and the affair was closed. So was the school...
Since the recent elevation of William L. Langer to the Coolidge professorship of History only gives him an expected promotion and an impressive title, he can dispense with congratulations. Rather, they should go to the Coolidge Chair whose reputation will be enhanced from its association with a man who is rapidly becoming the Napoleon of modern European historians and to President Conant who has effectively stilled the persistent rumors that other colleges are trying to bribe Mr. Langer away from Cambridge...
...Coolidge Professorship...
Established in 1931 from a bequest of the late Archibald C. Coolidge '87, this professorship "in modern European or Asiatic History" bears the novel stipulation that on vacancy it may at the University's discretion be filled or remain unoccupied with accumulation of income...
James P. Baxter, 3d., associate professor of History, has also been appointed to a full professorship...