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...University Professor Cooolidge bequeathed $150,000, to be held in trust as a fund under the name of "Coolidge Professorship," the income from which is to be devoted to the establishment and maintenance of a professorship in modern European or Asiatic history in the University. Harvard is to receive also a trust of $30,000, the income to be awarded annually to a student of history in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Subsequent to the bequest of other public and private gifts, the University will receive the residue of the estate, the income of which...
Charles Eliot Norton's unique place in the affections of Harvard men was indicated by Le Baron R. Briggs '75, dean of the College during the latter part of Norton's professorship, when he said recently that wherever Harvard men gathered 20 years ago two names were most often heard, those of N. S. Shaler '62, former professor of geology, and of Professor Norton...
...Annie Downing Wilson of Cambridge has left $150,000 in trust as an endowment fund, the income of which will be used to maintain a professorship to be known at the Robert Wheeler Wilson professorship of applied astronomy...
...Harvard does not wish to start such a professorship, the money is to be used as a scholarship fund for Harvard students to study astronomy elsewhere, preferably at the Royal Geographical Society of England...
...department of Ancient Languages. In 1903 he recived an A. M. degree and two years later was awarded a Ph.D. In 1909 he left Harvard to take up the position of assistant professor of the classics at the University of Illinois. He was soon given a full professorship and also made curator of the museum of classical art and archaeology. President Olds added a number of new members to the Amherst faculty in 1924 and among the prominent scholars whom he induced to transfer from other universities was Professor Pease, who was made Professor of Latin at Amherst...