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...diplomat, His Excellency, Dr. Manuel de Oliveira Lima, to occupy, for one year, the new chair of Latin American History and Economics. It is no great exaggeration to say that it would be impossible to find a man more qualified than he to fulfill the purpose for which this professorship was founded, namely, to spread sane and accurate knowledge of the past and present conditions of our sister republics to the southward...
...Felix Frankfurter, law officer of the Bureau of Insular Affairs in the War Department, has accepted the professorship of an entirely new field of instruction in the Law School next year. His courses will include the public service laws, criminal law practice, and modern penal administration and legislation. In all of these branches Mr. Frankfurter has had a wide and practical experience. The purpose in entering this new field is to meet the need for scientific legislation and administration caused by the growing complexity of social and industrial life; and to answer the call for more trained...
...concerning men that may be available in the graduating class. Positions are secured for practically all graduates, though the school does not promise this. Every graduate is practically assured a fair chance to prove his fitness for executive work, and to be put ahead if he 'makes good.' The professorship of banking and finance has been made permanent by the gift of endowment from a business man, Mr. Edmund C. Converse, of New York. The Harvard Corporation, as well as the business supporters of the school, consider that it has passed from experiment to assured success...
Professor Barrett Wendell, who was recently tendered the exchange professorship at the University of Berlin, has been compelled on account of illness to request President Lowell to withdraw his name from the proposed appointment which was to be made for the first half of next year...
...coming on Mondays and Thursdays. The subject tonight will be "Feudal Law." Professor Pound graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1888, studied law at Harvard in 1889 and 1890, and returned to Nebraska to take the degree of Ph.D. in 1897. In 1910 he was called to a professorship in the University Law School...