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...selection of Sigurthur Nordal of the University of Iceland as the fifth lecturer to hold the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry will attract general attention to a field of literature which at present is little known except to scholars. It is perhaps especially fortunate that Professor Nordal should come to Harvard following the addition of the Schofield collection of books in Widener, since they might be more fully appreciated in the light of his lectures...
...almost unnoticed. He was no longer in active service but he had been connected with the Harvard faculty for a quarter of a century. After being preacher to the University for two years he became allied with its teaching staff and later became the first holder of the Frothingham Professorship of the History of Religions, which he held until his retirement a few years ago. An authority in his field, the author of several books on the history of religions and the literature of the Bible, he was also a dominant force in the Theological School. He helped transform...
...decision will seem wise, for the chapel will inevitably in the long run be primarily a memorial to heroism, and the spirit of sacrifice was surely present in both lines of trenches. Only those are surprised that Columbia now resumes its exchange professorship with the University of Berlin who had supposed that the old bond had long ago been reforged. President Lowell, surely, will find all Harvard alumni with him in his readiness to forecast the reconciliation of the future...
...theologian president-emeritus of the College of Wooster. While Karl was teaching physics and studying electro-magnetic radiations at Princeton, Arthur studied the same subject there. Upon his elder brother's advice Arthur followed a path of physics which led him to a University of Chicago professorship and a Nobel Prize. Karl became president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Boylston prizes were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his uncle Nicholas Boylston, who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory. These prizes have been awarded annually for the past 113 years, and are among the oldest prizes offered by the University...