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...Henry B. Bigelow '01, recently elected to a professorship in the Department of Zoology, announces his intention of retaining his University status in addition to his appointment as Director of the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute. Dr. Bigelow is taking to Wood's Hole with him in June, the entire Harvard staff, consisting of Columbus O'D. Iselin '26, recently elected Curator of Oceanography, who is to be master of the vessel, and Miss Virginia B. Walker, who is to be Secretary of the Institute...
...Flexner also derides Rollins College for establishing a Professorship of Books. Such a course is part of the educational liberalism that the German educator is inclined to condemn. He has overlooked several aspects of such a chair which would make it really valuable, as President Holt points out in the accompanying press clipping...
...thing, an expression of the author's individuality, something too often neglected in the study of text books. The second provides valuable knowledge for the selection of a personal library. Rollins is certainly not to be censured for attempting to further this branch of the arts by establishing a professorship for its study...
...Flexner criticizes Rollins College for having a professor of books. The professorship is a novelty. Granted. But the idea of such a professorship is far from novel. In 1856 no less an immortal than Ralph Waldo Emerson, in an essay on "Books," said...
John Livingston Lowes, Higginson Professor of English at Harvard who is spending the current academic year at Oxford, has begun his series of lectures there, it was learned yesterday. Professor Lowes is lecturing at the English University as the first incumbent of the new George Eastman Visiting Professorship, established in 1928 by George Eastman of Rochester, New York...