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...endowment of any professorship bespeaks grace in the donor. Few bespeak also an interest equal to that recognized by Harvard men in the Theodore William Richards chair in Chemistry just established in his alma mater by Thomas W. Lamont, Harvard, '92, in memory of an elder brother, Hammond Lamont...
...most distinguished professors in the Law School. After graduating from the University in 1882, he took the degree of LL.D. from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago and in 1921 he was given the same degree by Cambridge University, England. Before being appointed to the Royall Professorship, Professor Beale held the Carter chair of general jurisprudence. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has published many books and monographs on legal questions...
...University announced Saturday the appointment of Dr. Alfred Worcester '78 of Waltham to the Henry K. Oliver Professorship of Hygiene. This professorship was founded in 1920 and held by Dr. Roger I. Lee '02 until his resignation in 1924. Dr. Worcester will also serve as head of the Department of Hygiene and Physical Education of which Dr. D. C. Parmenter '13 has been acting head this year...
...ordinate the separate departmental divisions. They must be more than nominal supervisors of the system. Their authority must be recognized. The Freshman Dean, in particular, must have the support, financial and otherwise, promised when his office was made. The departments must be allowed to create more, many more, associate professorships to retain the services of the instructors and assistant professors. These men wish to be assured that the University desires their services as long as they will remain. Under the present system, few expressions of this sort are given. While the undergraduates demand more contact with their instructors and more...
...endowing a chair of Poetry, Mr. C. Chauncey Stillman has made a bequest whose worth and importance can not be too highly valued. The establishment of such a professorship is a notable contribution to the intellectual and spiritual life of the University, for the incumbents of the Chair will doubtless be men whom Harvard heretofore could not afford to secure and for whom there has been no provision in the academic system. It is unlikely that if Mr. Stillman had not had the imagination, as well as the generosity, to create such a foundation, no provision for just such...