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Professor C. L. Smith has sent to the Corporation his resignation as Pope Professor of Latin, to take effect November 1, 1904. Professor Smith's resignation is due to ill health, which has made it impossible for him to carry on the full work of his professorship. He will, however, continue to give Classical Philology...
...university education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was the Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medallist in 1873 and held a fellowship in 1874. He was later elected, without examination, to an Extraordinary Fellowship at University College. Oxford, where he remained as lecturer until 1882, when he accepted a professorship at Edinburgh. Dr. Butcher was a member of the Scottish universities commission from 1889 to 1896, and served on the royal commission on university education in Ireland in 1901. He is well-known in this country through his writings, which include a prose translation of the Odyssey, compiled with...
...reported that by the will of Mary Putnam Ropes of Salem, the University will receive a bequest of Boston and Maine railroad common stock to endow the Nathaniel Ropes Professorship of Political Economy. The surplus, if any, is to go to the Peabody Museum. A second bequest from the same source of one-half the interest of an annuity bend of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, is to establish the Nathaniel Ropes; Jr., fund, the purpose of which is not stated. At present it is impossible to estimate the value of these bequests...
...professorship is named in honor of the late Charles Eliot, a son of President Eliot...
...Olmsted, Jr., '94, has been appointed Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture. The Charles Eliot professorship was established last spring and is to be supported with a portion of the earnings of the fund of $300,000 which was given to the University in 1899 by Mr. Nelson Robinson of New York, in memory of his son Nelson Robinson...