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150 First Professors

Samuel P. Glover

Adjunct Professor of Physics and Geology

Year of First Appointment: 1884

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First Professors

Robert Haldane West

Instructor in Higher Mathematics and Acting Director of Lee Observatory

Year of First Appointment: 1884

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Sheikh Khalil Ul-Yazigi

Instructor in Arabic

Year of First Appointment: 1884


The man after whom West Hall is named, Robert Haldane West taught higher mathematics, moral philosophy and astronomy and filled administrative positions as well.

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Khalil Sa'adah

Assistant to Adjunct Professor of Gynecology, Diseases of Skin, Diseases of Children and Legal Medicine

Year of First Appointment: 1884


Khalil Sa'ad authored an Arabic-English medical dictionary and later worked as a phamphleteer in the Lebanese communites of Brazil and Argentina.

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Francis Richa

Writing Master in Arabic

Year of First Appointment: 1884

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William S. Nelson

Instructor in English

Year of First Appointment: 1884

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W. W. Martin

Instructor in English Literature

Year of First Appointment: 1884

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 Andrew Macfarlane

Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Physics and Geology

Year of First Appointment: 1884

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Thomas W. Kay

Professor of Materia Medica, Zoology and Botany

Year of First Appointment: 1884

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Jurgius Kafruni

Teacher

Year of First Appointment: 1884

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