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...prize was given with a view to the fact that the University was the first institution of learning to establish a professorship in the field of music. The first prize will be given a year from this spring as it is to be maintained by interest on the sum donated, and some time must be allowed for the interest to accumulate. In the meantime, the Music Department will draw up the regulations for the competition, and the amount to be given...
...bachelor's degree costs $4800 and four years, the master's $6000 and five, and the doctorate, $8500, and seven--a not inconsiderable investment--in terms and money alike. And the reward? For the few who are chosen, it is a professorship, attained only at the end of 15 or 20 years, and worth, at a small college, perhaps $3000, at a medium-sized one $3700 and at the largest $6000. The gains of a deanship are slightly higher. Whereas professors average $3111 and instructors $1588, deans in 44 institutions receive a mean...
Then in 1882 Leo XIII (who, while he was papal nuncio in Brussels, had noted the young priest), conceived the idea of establishing a chair of philosophy in the University of Louvain to counter-balance the disarray of ideas prevalent among its students. For this professorship, all praise and recommendations centred in the studious priest, Desiré-Joseph Mercier. To Rome he went; conferred with many, including Pope Leo himself; outlined a Thomist program of scholastic philosophy with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many...
...University, Professor C. R. Lanman, editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, will resign and become Professor Emeritus, it was announced yesterday by the University office. Dr. Lanman came to the University in 1880 and in 1903 was appointed as the first occupant of the then newly established Wales Professorship of Sanskrit...
...made Instructor in Modern Languages. Not until 1884 was he definitely assigned to the Romance side, which he regarded as his own; in that year--the year of his marriage--he became Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, and in 1894 he was promoted to the Professorship which he held until his resignation...