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...generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship. At a faculty meeting Professor Spingarn got himself in scholastic hot water by defending his friend Peck. Independently rich, Spingarn refused to resign when President Butler suggested it, sharpened the issue by making Columbia fire...
...time of his death in 1904, Hearn held a professorship at Waseda University...
From 1895 to 1909 Dean Clifford was at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Electricity. In 1909 he came to Harvard to accept the Gordon McKay Professorship; he has been Dean of the School of Engineering since 1930. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Illuminating Engineering Society...
...Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son, whose name it bears, while the Boylston Prize, which will be awarded for the one hundred and eighteenth time this year, was founded by Ward Nicholas Boyleston in 1817 in honor of his uncle, who established the Boyleston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory...
...course there is no better time than the occasion of a Tercentenary to procure money. Already two million dollars have rolled in for the Graduate School of Public Administration, five hundred thousand for a Roving Professorship, twenty-five thousand for a National Scholarship. So we do not for a minute take exception even to the cost of these splendid ideas...