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...Harlow Shapley, who was appointed Director of the College Observatory last fall, has been elected by the Governing Boards of the University to the Paine Professorship of Practical Astronomy, which has been vacant since the death in 1919 of Professor Edward C. Pickering '65, former director of the Observatory...
...Paine professorship was established in 1887 under the will of Robert Treat Paine of the class of 1822, and was held by Professor Pickering from that time until 1919. Dr. Shapley, its second incumbent, studied at the University of Missouri and at Princeton, where he worked under Professor H. N. Russell; and in 1914 became a member of the staff of the Mount Wilson Observatory in California...
Bancroft Beatley '13 has been promoted from an instructorship in the School of Education to an assistant professorship. His subject will be the teaching of mathematics. Emory L. Chaffee '08 has been reappointed assistant professor of physics, and Taylor Starck and Arthur Burkhard have been reappointed instructors in German...
Professor Wilson, who is announced as one of the speakers, served as legal adviser at the Washington Conference. He is widely known as an authority on international law, and holds a professorship at the U. S. Naval College as well as at the University. He has had wide experience in international negotiations, holding the position of American delegate to the International Naval Conference in 1908-09. He was counselor to the American Legation at the Hague in 1914, and later served as legal adviser to the American mission for return of the Dutch ships...
...these courses could be adequately covered by reading and conference with a tutor, and so present faculty member would be able to spend some time on tutorial work. The question of the attitude can be taken care of; if it were possible for a tutor to reach a full professorship by that work alone, the interest of these men in tutorial work would be permanent. As for the undergraduate, if be found that he could not possibly pass any course without doing the required reading and if the recommendation of his tutor were necessary before he could have a degree...