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Post Chosen for William Dorr Boardman Chair of Fine Arts

Succeeds Late Arthur Kingsley Porter, First Incumbent

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Chandler Rathfon Post '04, former Professor of Greek and of Fine Arts, has been appointed to the William Dorr Boardman Chair of Fine Arts, it was announced yesterday. This appointment makes it necessary for the Corporation to accept the resignation of Professor Post as an Associate of Eliot House. He will be succeeded by Dr. Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology at the Medical School. Professor Post has been a member of the Harvard teaching staff since his graduation from the college in 1904.

The Boardman Professorship of Fine Arts was established in 1924 at the bequest of Alice L. Boardman in memory of her brother, William Dorr Boardman.

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