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Professor Kirsopp Lake, who yesterday resigned from the Winn Professorship of Ecclesiastical History and severed all his connections with the Harvard Theological School, has been appointed a professor in the faculty of Arts and Sciences and will continue to give his courses in the college...
Another consternating item of last week's news was the summary discharge of Emil Gumbel, statistician visiting the Genetics Congress, from his professorship in the University of Heidelberg. The reported reason: he had offended Heidelberg's patriotic sentiment by declaring that "a turnip is better than a war monument, than a statue adorned by scantily clad ladies." Professor Gumbel denied saying this...
...years Artist Alice Stallknecht (Mrs. Carl Van Buren Wight) has summered in Chatham. Since her husband's retirement from a Greek professorship at Johns Hopkins she has lived there permanently. Once an art student in New York and Philadelphia, Artist Stallknecht did not take up painting seriously until last year. This year she decided to decorate Old Congregational Church. In five weeks she turned out a mural 9 ft. by 20 ft. in three panels. Her Christ is tall, slight, blue-eyed, dark-haired, aged about 30. The face is an idealized combination of many Cape Cod fisherfolk...
George LaPiana, professor of Church History, has been chosen as the first incumbent of the John Hopkins Morison professorship of Theology at the Theological School, founded under the will of R. S. Morison '69 in memory of his father...
...written many books since on the long road that led him from the Professorship of Rhetoric at Lyon (1896-1904) to the Mayoralty (1906), which he has held, with one break, ever since, and twice into the office of Premier (1924-25 and 1926, the last time for only two days). To distract themselves other statesmen read. Edouard Herriot (like Winston Churchill) writes. Because he chanced to attend a Beethoven festival, M. Herriot is the author of a life of Beethoven. Because he loves the forests of Normandy he has made a rambling book out of his rambles there. Stimulated...