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...taught at Harvard, Boston University, Oberlin College, and finally at Syracuse where he held the John Raymond French professorship in Mathematics from 1901 to his death...
...Boylston Prizes which are among the oldest awards in the College, consist of a first prize of $50 and two other prizes of $35 each. Ward Nicholas Boylston founded them in 1817, in memory of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory. Since then, there has been a competition every year. the Lee Wade Prize of $50, which is awarded as the first prize of the evening, was established in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade in honor of his son, Lee Wade...
...Kane's sons, Professor Elisha Kent Kane of the University of Tennessee, lost his young wife by drowning, was accused of causing her death (TIME, Oct. 5). A jury found him not guilty. He resigned his professorship...
...greatest jurist of this century, and the ideas now formulated by most lawyers were expressed by him a generation ago. I feel sure that no other member of the Supreme Court in the history of the body has been so productive of ideas. Although he gave up his law professorship here many years ago, he has always been one of the Law School's warmest friends, accepting the presidency of the Harvard Law School Association for a long period of years, and it is very fitting that his latest portrait should hang opposite that of John Marshall, America's greatest...
...somewhat surprised but very much gratified to learn that Thomas Stearns Eliot has been appointed to fill the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard during the academic year of 1932-33. Cynics may remark that Mr. Eliot possesses a rare combination of qualities in that he is at once an Eliot, a Harvard graduate, and by choice, a British subject. They may add that this combination is exactly the one which would appeal to certain prejudices rooted in the academic mind. But the fact remains that he is a man of extraordinary talents and that he is, despite...