Great honour, you know, having a professorial chair at Oxford.
He retired from this professorial chair at the age of 70.
He was appointed principal of the college in 1919, retaining his professorial chair until 1924.
The latter appointment is described as the first professorial chair of any kind in Pennsylvania.
It currently has 24 faculties with 37 professorial chairs and 29 academic departments.
When able men occupied the professorial chairs, there was scope for immense development.
He was one of the earliest Africans to hold a professorial chair.
He was a noted physician for his age and received at professorial chair at this university.
In 1940 she became the first woman to hold a professorial chair in Scotland.
A professorial chair in his honor was established at Cornell in 1987.