Fifty Years of Sathers : The Sather Professorship of Classical Literature in the University of California, Berkeley 1913/4-1963/4

by: Dow, S,

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THE FOUNDING: Fifty years ago Jane K. Sather created at Berkeley a gate, a bell tower, and two professorships. The gate dominates part of the campus, the bell tower dominates the whole campus. One of the professorships has become the most honorific of all annual Classical professorships anywhere in the world. Mrs. Sather did not achieve these results overnight, or without help. She began in 1900, at the age of 76. Peder Sather, her second and wealthier husband, had died 14 years earlier. Already well-off when he came to California in 1850, Peder Sather was a banker. Jane put his name and dates, 1810—1886, opposite her own name on the Gate. Presumably the fortune of which she disposed was his. In making her dispositions, she had the help of a very able and remarkable person, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, who in 1899 had come from Cornell to be President of the University. Himself a teacher of linguistics and a notable historian of Classical Greece, Wheeler had worked fast. In one year he had induced the widow to give an amount adequate for a Classical professorship, and he had guided her in making certain lesser gifts as well. The property was to be held by him, and the income was to go to her, throughout her life; then it was to go to the University.

Fifty Years of Sathers : The Sather Professorship of Classical Literature in the University of California, Berkeley 1913/4-1963/4

by: Dow, S,

• ISBN-03: 06517449
• University of California Press, Berkeley, 1965

Price: 19,00 EURO

1 copy in stock