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Before the war, Mr. Nearing was an instructor in economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He was dismissed from that position for alleged socialistics teachings, whereupon he took his present professorship at the Rand School of Social Science in New York...
...Summer's day, and so shall it go on and on even after the physical body which set going those waves of light in the pool of time shall have sunk out of sight into the gulfs of eternity. They promote him to the rank of full professorship "Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory." But he promoted himself, years ago to a higher rank full professor of that finest of the fine arts, the art of nourishing creative talents...
Before his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1883, Justice Holmes instructed for two years in the University. In 1870-71 he lectured on constitutional law in the college and in 1880 was appointed to a professorship in the Law School...
Additional interest is centred this year in the dinner owing to the Boylston Professorship which Professor Copeland will now hold, following the resignation of Dean Briggs. The celebration of his promotion is expected to add new zest to the dinner, and to the reading which Professor Copeland will give tonight before the members of the Harvard Club. He has the distinction of being the only man in the world who has his own Alumni Association...
...productions and am talking not entirely in the dark. But I should like to ask whether the production of Slavically mournful, not quite "eqochmaking," plays is really of greater importance than, say, the foundation of a new scholarship or the sorely needed endowment of a laboratory or a professorship in one of the branches of the arts. Harvard is not an overwhelmingly rich college, over-endowed and able to spend as much as would be desirable in the vital business of education. And even without consideration of the financial side, is it not also a dangerous thing when a subsidiary...