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At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.
Unitarian Henry Ware ( 1764 – 1845 ) was appointed as the Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard College, in 1805.
Gilbert returned to Harvard in 1956 and was appointed assistant professor of physics in 1959 ; in 1964 Gilbert was promoted to associate professor of biophysics and promoted again in 1968 to professor of biochemistry.
In 1970 Rubbia was appointed Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University, where he spent one semester per year for 18 years, while continuing his research activities at CERN.
In 1949, he was appointed professor of economics at Harvard.
In 1953, Bundy was appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard at the age of thirty-four, the youngest in the school's history.
* Louis Tompkins Wright, ( 1891 – 1952 ), physician, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, the first African-American physician to be appointed to the staff of a New York City municipal hospital ; notable for many scientific breakthroughs, including the introduction of intradermal smallpox vaccination.
He was appointed Tutor in Mathematics at Harvard in the fall of 1854 and studied chemistry with Josiah P. Cooke.
Well-known advocates are primatologist Jane Goodall, appointed a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations to fight the bushmeat trade and end ape extinction ; Richard Dawkins, former Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University ; Peter Singer, professor of philosophy at Princeton University ; and attorney and former Harvard professor Steven Wise.
For 100 years of its history, Phillips Academy shared its campus with the Andover Theological Seminary, which was founded on Phillips Hill in 1807 by orthodox Calvinists who had fled Harvard College after it appointed a liberal Unitarian theologian to a professorship of divinity.
* E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.
In spring 2008 he was appointed Fromm Visiting Professor at the Music department at Harvard University.
Upon graduation Child was appointed tutor in mathematics at Harvard and in 1848 was transferred to a tutorship in history, political economy, and English literature.
In 1875 he was appointed professor of the history of art at Harvard, a chair which was created for him and which he held until retirement in 1898.
In 1969, Coates was appointed assistant professor of mathematics at Harvard University in the United States, before moving again in 1972 to Stanford University where he became an associate professor.
In 1870, Adams was appointed Professor of Medieval History at Harvard, a position he held until his early retirement in 1877 at 39.
He was appointed visiting professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard University while maintaining a laboratory space at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he pursued research in genetics.
Solomon graduated from Harvard College in 1662 ; shortly thereafter, he was appointed " Library keeper ", and Library Laws were enacted specifying that he should keep the Library " duly swept " and the books " clean and orderly.
In 1925, he returned to Harvard, where he was appointed a full professor.
He was also appointed as a Research Affiliate with the Leadership Network at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
After the war ended, Conant was discharged from the Army and returned to Harvard, where he was appointed an assistant professor of chemistry on September 1, 1919.
In 1902, he became a professor at the Harvard Divinity School, where he was appointed Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion in 1905, and Cabot Fellow for three years beginning in 1906.
After graduating from Harvard, he remained as a tutor ( 1829 ), and was subsequently appointed professor of mathematics in 1831.
He was secretary of the Scientific Qualifying Committee between 1984 – 1990, from 1985 he has been a member of the Harvard Academy of International Commercial Law, from 1988 a member of the steering committee of the Rome international institute ( UNIDROIT ) for unifying private law, while from 1989 he was appointed as a central judge on the Washington-based international selected court for states and foreign investors.

Harvard and him
That summer Tom attended the summer session at Harvard, but he did not ask Mama to send him back in the fall.
It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.
Yet, even after all these stratagems, the conscience of Christian liberality is still not laid to rest, any more than is the conscience of Harvard University for having done the abject penance for its rejection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Divinity School Address of naming its hall of philosophy after him.
Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.
Lara's father Bunty and one of his older sisters Agnes Cyrus enrolled him in the local Harvard Coaching Clinic at the age of six for weekly coaching sessions on Sundays.
from Harvard ; in 1863 the Lawrence Scientific School awarded him a B. Sc.
Kildall was particularly annoyed when the University of Washington asked him, as a distinguished graduate, to attend their computer science program anniversary in 1992, but gave the keynote speech to Gates, a dropout from Harvard.
His engagement for the Lowell Institute lectures precipitated the establishment of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard University in 1847 with him as its head.
In 1973, Harvard promoted him to Professor of Geology and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the institution's Museum of Comparative Zoology and very often described himself as a taxonomist.
In 1982, Harvard awarded him with the title of Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology.
At this early age, he began writing his own show tunes, which eventually helped him in his future adventures as a satirical composer and writer in his years of lecturing at Harvard University, and later at other universities.
He received his doctorate in engineering from MIT and Harvard University jointly in 1917, after a dispute with his adviser Arthur Edwin Kennelly, who tried to demand more work from him.
In 1909 Harvard granted him a PhD for a dissertation based on his study of " Oriental Immigration to Canada.
The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language ( as was common in other schools ), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew ( in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language ) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים ( Urim and Thummim ) on the Yale seal.
He came in contact with Professor John Henry Wright of Harvard University who invited him to speak at the university.
A late flowering of academic life came when Harvard University offered him a lectureship for the first six months of 1932.
This allowed him to attend Harvard University in 1927 – 1928 and then both University of Göttingen and University of Amsterdam the following year.
Owen Gingerich, an astronomer and former Harvard professor, has called him a leading voice on the relationship between science and religion.
In 1954 Nivola became a professor and the director of the " Design Workshop " at the Harvard University, while the American Institute of Graphic Arts assigned him its Certificate of Excellence.
He had his mind set on going to Harvard University until Homer introduced him to beer the day before they were to take the SATs.
A Harvard graduate and a Republican, Howell was a multi-billionaire until his losses in the Great Depression left him a multi-millionaire.
The woman, Averill's old Harvard girlfriend ( perhaps now his wife ), awakens and asks him for a cigarette.
" However, in 1968, Buechner received a letter from Charles Price, the chaplain at Harvard, inviting him to give the Noble Lectures series in the winter of 1969.

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