There are plans to establish the campus's first endowed chair, named after Mr. Tolson.
BOSTON — When Elena Kagan became dean of Harvard Law School in 2003, she could have taken the endowed chair named for Isaac Royall Jr.
Limited to two terms as governor, he joined a Baltimore law firm and held a chair named for him at the University of Maryland.
Ms. DeLonge's Ava club chair, named for her 3-year-old daughter, is covered in synthetic suede ($299) and has a matching ottoman ($99).
Morris chair, chair named for William Morris, the English poet, painter, polemicist, and craftsman, who pioneered in the 19th century the production of functional furniture of an idealized traditional type.
The chair, named for the historian Richard Lyman Bushman and supported by a $3 million endowment from anonymous donors, is the first of its kind at a major public university, and the first in the East.
I was heading for Cambridge at the time, to take up my new job as Bertrand Russell professor of philosophy – a chair named after a man who spent the last years of his life trying to protect humanity from another kind of technological risk, that of nuclear war.
The latest proof of Steelcase's imagination is its new ergonomic chair, named, appropriately enough, Think.
There is an endowed chair named in honor of Bruno Rossi at MIT.
Typically, the chair names all 15 members to the committee, which sets the party's agenda and guiding principles at the convention in July.
She was still looking around the classroom, at the small ways in which it was now strange, at the names taped onto the backs of the chairs, names she would not recognize.
