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LITERATURE AND ARTS 231 istry and geology, were first opened. In 1907 Prof. A. V. Bleininger came to instruct in ceramics, and Prof. W. A. Noyes left the Bureau of Standards to head the chemistry departments; in 1908 Prof. H. B. Ward became head of the zoology department; and in 1913 William Trelease took a professorship in botany beside Charles F. Hottes. But it was the erection of the huge additions to the Natural History and Chemistry Buildings which permitted the college to expand as it ought. In literature and arts, which Dean Evarts B. Greene ably guided for seven years beginning 1906, the years following 1905-06, when the Board authorized the filling of three important new professorships in modern languages, English, and classics, were especially notable in linguistic fields. Instruction in all the modern foreign tongues was in 1906 combined in one department, under the scholarly Gustav E. Karsten, and after his death in 1908 the departments of Germanic and Romance languages began their differentiated development. Dr. Julius Goebel at once took charge of the former; the latter, after obtaining for a time the services of Prof. Raymond Weeks, was handicapped by the want of a head till the appointment of Dr. Kenneth McKenzie in 1915. With the English department, under Dr. Dodge, had been united that of rhetoric, under Dean Clark, who became chairman after the union. It was expanded by the addition of subordinates, and given a new solidity by the coming in 1907 of C. N. Greenough, who temporarily became head, Jacob Zeitlin, and Stuart P. Sherman. One distinctive new department has in recent years been organized—that of Scandinavian languages, under Prof. G. T. Flom. In history the staff was also enlarged, and the University began in earnest its researches into Western records, Dean Greene and Prof.
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