Event class: position, returned, university, work, teaching, left, took, leave, school

Events with high posterior probability

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay	In 1849 he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow, a position with no administrative duties, often awarded by the students to men of political or literary fame ; he also received the freedom of the city.
Joseph Victor von Scheffel	But in 1854, defective eyesight incapacitated him ; he quit the government service and took up his residence at Heidelberg, with the intention of preparing himself for a post on the teaching staff of the university.
Afewerk Tekle	Following the war, in 1947, Afewerk decided that he wanted to help rebuild Ethiopia and elected to travel to England to study mining engineering.
John Ward Studebaker	During World War I he took a leave of absence from that position to become national director of the Junior Red Cross and to undertake graduate study at Columbia University, where he was awarded a master's degree in 1920.
Yiannis Poulakas	Poulakas was professionally dealing primarily with scenography and secondarily with painting, as he was offered more occupational opportunities in theatre, especially during the last two years of his residence in Constantinople, where his scholarship had expired after completion of his studies in 1883.
Mary Sheldon Barnes	In 1879 she resigned due to poor health and internal conflicts at the college, leaving behind teaching to travel abroad and rest for a year.
Mahmood Mamdani	Mamdani returned to Uganda in early 1972 and joined Makerere University as a teaching assistant at the same time conducting his doctoral research ; only to be expelled later that year by Idi Amin due to his ethnicity.
Carrie Derick	In 1905,'' after seven years of lecturing, assisting Penhallow with his classes, researching and publishing, without any pay increments or offers of promotion, Derick wrote directly to Principal Peterson and was promoted to assistant professor'' at one-third the salary of her male counterparts.
George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd	In 1905 he turned down an offer by Stewarts & Lloyds of a steady position in London and chose to embark on a study of the East in the British Empire.
Constantin Stere	Stere largely owed his 1901 appointment as Deputy Professor at the University of Iaşi to his political connections : falling short of legal requirements, he asked Brătianu and Spiru Haret to make an exception in his case (in order to avoid breaking the law which prevented state employees from being elected deputies, he asked not to receive a salary for his first course).
Max Abraham	In 1909 Abraham travelled to the United States to accept a position at the University of Illinois, but ended up returning to Göttingen after a few months.
Joseph Gibson Hoyt	The University's Collegiate Department, the forerunner of Arts & Sciences, graduated its first class of five students near the end of his tenure in 1862, although he missed the ceremony due to illness, knowing he was dying of tuberculosis.
Emmanuel d'Alzon	However, the following year, disappointed by the lack of ambition of the students and the lack of depth of the course work, he went to Rome where he stayed until 1835.
Kamshad Kooshan	As a 16 year old, he became heavily involved in the Iranian Revolution of 1979, but his mother forcefully decided to cut his presence in Iran short and send him abroad to United States, where he traveled alone to go to High School.
Leo Strauss	After receiving a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1932, Strauss left his position at the Academy of Jewish Research in Berlin for Paris.
George Bailey Sansom	In 1935 Sansom took a leave of absence of six months, which he spent at Columbia University in New York as a lecturer.
Julius Axelrod	Realizing that he could not advance his career without a PhD, he took a leave of absence from the NIH in 1954 to attend George Washington University Medical School.
Clarence Chant	Due to the limited prospects his stay at this job was brief, however, and in 1891 he was offered a fellowship at University of Toronto, where he gained an appointment as a lecturer of physics the following year.
Pedro Bonifacio Palacios	In 1894 he renewed his teaching activities at a school near Trenque Lauquen, but two years later was once again withdrawn for political reasons.
Mark Satin	However, even after Satin entered New York University School of Law in 1992, he expressed no desire to abandon his project of helping to construct a post-liberal, post-Marxist ideology.
Lucile Lawrence	When cutbacks due to the Depression caused her to be laid off in 1928, she was invited to found the Harp Department at the Philadelphia Musical Academy.
Jessie Taft	Taft was finally able to begin an academic career in 1929 at the University of Pennsylvania.
Larry Mullins	In 1956, Mullins took the same position at Marquette University with a substantial pay raise.
Haakon Chevalier	After the House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities hearing, Chevalier lost his job at Berkeley in 1950 and was unable to find another professorship in the United States and thus moved to France, where he continued to work as a translator.
David Guiney	In 1946 he resigned from his post in the civil service after being refused leave to represent Ireland in the European Championships in Oslo and turned to journalism shortly afterwards.
Edward Weston	The school refused to give him a diploma unless he paid for the full nine months ; Weston refused and instead moved back to California in the spring of 1908.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	On August 27, 1829, he wrote to the president of Bowdoin that he was turning down the professorship because he considered the $ 600 salary'' disproportionate to the duties required''.
Anna Akhmatova	Akhmatova was able to meet some of her pre-revolutionary acquaintances in 1965, when she was allowed to travel to Sicily and England, in order to receive the Taormina prize and an honorary doctoral degree from Oxford University, accompanied by her lifelong friend and secretary Lydia Chukovskaya.
Kate Gleason	In 1884, she was the first woman to be admitted to study engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, although she was unable to complete her studies at Cornell due to her required presence in the factory.
Jeton Aziri	Early 2006, Aziri was offered the post of President for the'' Bashkimi'', however, it was rejected due to his study obligations.
Grace Hopper	Hopper remained at the Harvard Computation Lab until 1949, turning down a full professorship at Vassar in favor of working as a research fellow under a Navy contract at Harvard.
Jacques Hadamard	The Vichy government permitted him to leave for the United States in 1941 and he obtained a visiting position at Columbia University in New York.
Hans Bethe	Bethe had already accepted a fellowship for a year to work with Nevill Mott at the University of Bristol for a semester, but Cornell agreed to let him start in the spring of 1935.
Jessie Taft	After completing her thesis in 1913 Taft desired an academic position but women of this era were mostly excluded from that life.
Daim Zainuddin	Impressed by his legal skills and political knowledge, the Prime Minister offered Daim a seat in Sungai Petani in the 1974 general elections but Daim declined, choosing instead to establish his credentials in business.
Harold R. W. Benjamin	Benjamin decided to take a job at Stanford University as a teaching fellow before deciding to enroll in their student teaching program in 1927.
Alfred Escher	Following his return to Zurich in the summer of 1843 Escher devoted himself to a number of academic projects.
Albert H. Taylor	He returned to Northwestern in 1900, lacking only one semester of graduating when lack of funds forced him to accept a position as an instructor at Michigan State College.
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov	In 1963, the CIA helped him publish another book, The Handbook of Counter-Intelligence and Guerilla Warfare, and helped him obtain a job as a researcher at the Law School of the University of Michigan.
Emmy Noether	For the next seven years (1908 -- 15) she taught at the University of Erlangen's Mathematical Institute without pay, occasionally substituting for her father when he was too ill to lecture.
Alexander Dickson (botanist)	He thus obtained an opportunity for displaying his merits as a teacher ; and his success proved of much value in securing for him in 1866 the chair of Botany in the University of Dublin.
K. A. C. Creswell	His interest in Islamic architecture spurred him to look for more satisfying employment, and in May 1914 he applied, unsuccessfully, to join the Archaeological Survey of India.
Rjurik Lonin	While living in the city, Lonin began to write poetry in Veps, and after various episodes he was asked to pay a visit to the Soviet Academy of Sciences, in its Karelian branch, at the Department of Languages, Literature and History (YALI), where Nikolai Bogdanov, researcher of the Veps language, urged him to begin to collect Veps folklore instead of writing poetry, which Lonin then began in 1956.
Harold Davidson	By 1901 his academic inadequacies were such that he was required to leave Exeter College, although he was allowed to continue studying for his degree at Grindle's Hall, a cramming establishment.
Haskell Curry	In 1942 he took a leave of absence to do applied mathematics for the US government during World War II.
Emilio Artom	Immediately after graduation he stayed two years at the University of Bologna as an assistant of Federigo Enriques, but he renounced in 1911 convinced that, as he had produced little, it was better to start teaching.
P. S. Soosaithasan	Soosaithasan and all other TULF MPs boycotted Parliament from the middle of 1983 for a number of reasons : they were under pressure from Sri Lankan Tamil militants not to stay in Parliament beyond their normal six-year term ; the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka required them to swear an oath unconditionally renouncing support for a separate state ; and the Black July riots in which up to 3,000 Tamils were murdered by Sinhalese mobs.
Margaret Newton	Vavilov had attempted to lure her to work in Leningrad in 1930 by offering a generous salary, technical support, and a camel caravan for travel.
Jerry Clack	Although at the time he had no intention of pursing a career in Classics, in 1968 he was offered a position in the Department of Classics at Duquesne University and decided to turn his lifelong hobby into his profession, often reminding his colleagues that he had brought the modern business world to the Romans and Greeks.
Manning Clark	In June 1940 he suddenly decided to return to Australia, abandoning his unfinished thesis, but was unable to get a teaching position at an Australian university due to the wartime decline in enrolments.
Clifford Nelson Fyle	He rejected the offer, opting instead for the language specialist position for UNESCO in January 1978.
Salim Ali	Prince of Wales Museum in 1927 Ali failed to get an ornithologist's position which was open at the Zoological Survey of India due to the lack of a formal university degree and the post went instead to M. L. Roonwal.
John Maxwell Edmonds	Periods of illness which had originally made him initially delay his university career later forced him to be sent down from university for several terms, but he nevertheless recovered to take a first in his tripos in 1898.
T?nis Lukas	He briefly returned to University of Tartu for two years in 1997 to work as a project manager and to participate in doctorate programme (still unfinished).
Learned Hand	He was also chosen as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, although he resigned in 1894 because it took too much time from his studies.
James Laughlin	With funds from his graduation gift, Laughlin endowed New Directions with more money, ensuring that the company could stay afloat even though it did not turn a profit until 1946.
Richard H. Geoghegan	Meanwhile he unsuccessfully sought a position as professor of Chinese language at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the early days of 1903 he accepted an invitation by the well-known judge James Wickersham to come to Alaska as a court stenographer.
Konstantin Makovsky	In 1863 Makovsky, together with the other 13 students eligible to participate in the competition for the Large Gold Medal of Academia, refused to paint on the set topic in Scandinavian mythology and instead left Academia without a formal diploma.
Alexander Mitscherlich (psychologist)	When Mitscherlich's Jewish-born dissertation thesis supervisor died in 1932 his chair was passed to an antisemite who declined to take over the dissertation projects begun by his predecessor.
Joseph Campbell	On his return to Columbia in 1929, Campbell expressed his desire to pursue the study of Sanskrit and Modern Art in addition to Medieval literature.
Bohumil Hrabal	There too he struggled to concentrate on his studies, despite extra classes given to him by his uncle as Czech universities were closed during the Nazi occupation, starting in November 1939.
Hans Joachim Moser	He received in 1947 a professorship from the Jena University, but after two months it was withdrawn in the light of his activities in the Propaganda Ministry.
Joseph Chartrand	For reasons that are unknown, Chartrand was able to convince Rome that he should not take that post, so in July 1925, the two men switched and McNicholas was named Archbishop of Cincinnati and Chartrand was reappointed to Indianapolis.
Donald Davidson (philosopher)	After three and a half years in the Navy, he tried unsuccessfully to write a novel before returning to his philosophy studies and earning his doctorate in philosophy in 1949.
Elwyn Richardson	He applied for the remote country position at Oruaiti School in 1949 largely because of its distinct fauna of sea life, but also because the sole-charge posting offered him the opportunity to work out his own ideas about teaching and learning alone.
Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn	Despite consistent opposition from the Houghton family, she was able to realize the promise she had made to her mother ; Katharine Houghton graduated from Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr College in 1899, with an A. B. in history and political science.
Mary Cheh	In an earlier leave in 1983, she did pro bono work for the Centre for Applied Legal Studies in South Africa.
Edward C. Harwood	He retired from military service in 1938 and took up full-time economic and philosophical research at AIER, which by this time was housed in a building just off the Harvard campus in Cambridge.
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza	In January 1990 he left Kenyatta University to work on his African economic history research project, which took him to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and his alma mater, Dalhousie University in Canada, where he spent the next six months conducting research.
Emil Artin	Ironically, he had applied only some months earlier, on February 8, 1937, for a leave of absence from the University in order to accept a position offered him at Stanford.
Park Ji-Sung	In June 2000, while he was a national team member and a second year student at Myongji University, Kyoto Purple Sanga of Japan offered Park a contract and he took the offer though he was still a relative unknown.
Hayashi Fusao	Hayashi was able to obtain admission to the law school of Tokyo Imperial University, where he led Marxist seminars, but he left school in 1925 to devote his energies to leftist politics and to the arts.
Esha Momeni	While working on her master thesis in Iran, she was arrested in October and November 2008, and subsequently prevented from leaving Iran.
L'Houssaine Kherchtou	After receiving his pilot license, he returned to the Sudan in December 1995, but was appalled to find that his wife, heavily pregnant and in need of $ 500 for a cesarean section, was begging on the streets for money to allow her entrance to Khartoum's general hospital.
John Couch Adams	The post of Astronomer Royal was offered him in 1881, but he preferred to pursue his peaceful course of teaching and research in Cambridge.
Kurt Baschwitz	In 1930 he was offered a position on the faculty of the University of Heidelberg but he refused, on account of the growing anti-Semitic climate in Germany which would make his life and that of his family difficult.
David Lewis-Williams	At the start of 1963, he moved to Kearsney College, where, despite wanting to be a senior Geography teacher he was given the post of English master instead ; after a few years he was offered the Geography post but turned it down because he found he enjoyed teaching English more.
Ephraim Kishon	Due to the racial laws applied in Hungary during World War II, he was not allowed to continue his studies at the university and therefore he began to study jewelry making in 1942.
Abdullah el-Tell	At the end of January 1950, el-Tell moved to Cairo where according to Glubb the Egyptian Government offered him a salary.
William Stanley Jevons	Towards the end of 1853, after having spent two years at University College, where his favourite subjects were chemistry and botany, he unexpectedly received the offer of the assayership to the new mint in Australia.
Hua Luogeng	After the war, Hua spent three months in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1946, at Vinogradov's invitation, following which Hua departed for Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
J. V. Cunningham	In 1931, Cunningham again struck up a correspondence with Winters, who offered him the opportunity to stay in a shed on Winters' property and to attend classes at Stanford University where Winters was teaching.
Frederick Rossini	His Ph. D. degree was awarded in 1928, after only 21 months of graduate work, even though he continued to serve as a teaching fellow throughout this entire period.
Guy W. Calissi	Offered a college scholarship, he chose to decline it so that he could earn a living and graduated in 1941 from John Marshall Law School.
Bob Massie (politician)	In 1993 he received a Senior Fulbright Research Award which enabled him to spend six months in South Africa, lecturing at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and traveling the country to research a history of the anti-apartheid Movement in which he had participated as a college student.
Salim Ali	He however tired of the job after two years and took a study leave in 1928 to Germany, where he was to work under Professor Erwin Stresemann at the Berlin Zoological Museum.
Alexander Smith (poet)	The job allowed him a few spare hours in the day for writing, as well as the long summer vacation, but it was no sinecure, especially when he also took on the duties of registrar and secretary to the university council in 1858.
Sir Thomas Nussey, 1st Baronet	He started to engage in political activity as soon as he came down from university and MPs did not receive salaries until 1911.
Mohammad-Javad Larijani	However he did not finish his studies and did not write a dissertation as he returned to Iran because of the 1979 revolution.
Revol Bunin	In 1941, he was summoned to first work at the military factory in Moscow and then drafted to active duty but, taking into account his musical gift, he was stationed near Moscow, so he could continue to attend the classes.
Charles Francis Massey Swynnerton	In 1897 he was accepted at Oxford University, but emigrated to Africa instead.
Arlene Horowitz	Believing that the only hope she might have for a decent life was education, thanks to the lucky combination of a free higher education offered to academically-qualified New York City residents and her father's Social Security payments, she was able to earn a bachelor's degree in political science from Hunter College in 1967.
Eliza Agnew	The Missionary Herald (September, 1863) rewarded her pioneering efforts in Ceylon towards helping girls and women with the following quote :'' It is largely owing to the work she was permitted to do that female education is more advanced here (Ceylon) than in almost any other heathen land.''
Ibrahim Shekarau	By February 2000, he was on the move again to Civil Service Commission, where he stayed for only four months before the civil service commission under Ado Gwaram Government sent him to the State College of Arts, Science and Remedial Studies (CASRS) as Chief lecturer (Mathematics) at the Department of Physical Sciences, in May 2000.
Beno Gutenberg	Even if he had obtained a full professorship in Germany, he would have lost it in 1933 anyway, like so many other scientists of Jewish ancestry, at least 30 of whom emigrated to the United States under Gutenberg's sponsorship.
Alexander Bain	In 1841, Bain substituted for Dr. Glennie the Professor of Moral Philosophy, who, due to ill-health, was unable to discharge his academic duties.
Herbert H. Rowen	On his return to New York from military service in 1946, Rowen followed his growing interests in languages and took a position as an editorial research assistant with the American College Dictionary at Random House.
Alfred Wegener	In 1924 Wegener was appointed to a professorship in meteorology and geophysics in Graz, which finally provided him with a secure position for himself and his family.
Teofil Ociepka	He gave up his attempts in 1930 after receiving criticism from Tadeusz Dobrowolski, a Polish professor of art history and museum curator.
Gene Weltfish	In 1953 Weltfish lost her position at Columbia University, after 16 years of employment as an adjunct lecturer.