Professor Felix Frankfurter, associated with the Law Faculty of Harvard University since 1914 has been appointed to the George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford University.
Confirmation of the appointment was offered here yesterday by Professor Franklin F. Russell, secretary of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars.
The visiting professorship was established in 1929, by the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, through the gift of the late George Eastman of Rochester.
Professor Frankfurter is the first Jew to be named to this post.
Professor Frankfurter has recently figured in the news as a candidate for appointment to the Massachusetts Superior Court, a candidacy which aroused much opposition in some circles on the ground that Professor Frankfurter was too liberal in his views. Later, Professor Frankfurter announced he would not accept the office inasmuch as he could not sever his connections with Harvard University.
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