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...stipend of the second Boylston award has been raised from $30 to $35 while the first prize, which ranks second to the Lee Wade prize remains at $50. The Boylston prizes were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his uncle who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory. It is the present holder of this chair. Professor Packard, who is in charge of the contest...
...from the Harvard faculty, or whether he would be released on a leave of absence for the duration of his tenure of office. Professor Sprague, who holds three degrees from Harvard, returned to the University in 1900, to teach, and since 1913 he has held the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professorship of Banking and Finance. For a three-year period, from 1905 to 1908, he taught economics at the Imperial University of Tokio...
...Europe. He studied in Minsk. Warsaw and Berlin. He came to the United States in 1882 and, after teaching school for ten years, became affiliated with the faculty of the University of Missouri. In 1896 he came to Harvard as an instructor in Slavic languages and assumed his professorship...
...professorship, Mr. French felt that he must decline the school's offer. He went to the English department, forthrightly asked if he was to receive the position. As forthrightly the English board met, voted unfavorably four to three. Their fancy fell upon Assistant Professor Frederick Albert Pottle of the Graduate School, a mighty young authority on Johnsoniana...
With tumult and with shouting Pedagog French's friends and disciples, old and new, came to his aid. The Corporation solemnly convened, voted to create an extra professorship for him, submitted the proposal to the English board. Again and astoundingly came the negative vote, four to three. President James Rowland Angell accepted Pedagog French's resignation, with customary expressions of regret. The triumph of Research over Teaching seemed complete...