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...recently won widespread recognition through his book "Origins of the World War", was for 15 years professor of history at Smith, and resigned last spring to accept a professorship of European history at Harvard. He was honored by the honorary degree of L.H.D. from Smith at its commencement last June...
...Harvard the next development was the David A. Wells bequest in 1902, which, beside providing for a professorship in economics, enabled the Department to offer an annual prize of $500 for the best thesis embodying the results of original investigation by members of the senior class in Harvard College and graduates, of not more than three years standing, of any department of the University, the subject to lie within the field of economics or some adjacent field, and the thesis to be published by the University. While this bequest did not provide funds for research it did provide means...
That so much was accomplished last year justifies us in regarding 1928 as a landmark in the history of the Department of Economics fairly comparable with the appointment of Dunbar to the first professorship in 1871, the establishment of the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 1886, and the appointment of the first Committee on Economic Research in 1917. That original Committee, so far as I have yet been able to learn, was the first organization ever established in any university for the purpose of making permanent provision for economic research. Form its efforts have come, first, the Harvard Economic Society...
...hung with portraits, for the most part of the Law School Faculty prior to 1879. On the center of the south wall is the group of the Royall family painted by Feke. Isaac Royall was a Boston merchant who, dying in 1781, provided in his will for a Harvard professorship of law or physic. It was not, however, until 1815 that the Corporation, which had chosen to establish a professorship of law, was able to do so. The Royall Professorship is, next to the Vinerian at Oxford, the oldest named professorship of law in the English-speaking world. The picture...
...Province of Massachusetts in 1729, and in 1752 was made chief justice. He died in 1760. The painting by Feke, is regarded as a splendid example of his work, of which the School has another in the group of the family of Isaac Royall, founder of the Royall professorship. The Law School was able to acquire the Sewall portrait through the generosity of the Harvard Law School Association, and some 35 graduates and friends...