Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unerring instinct for the aspirations and needs of society. He has touched no subject without illuminating it; he has stood firmly for collegiate and civic righteousness; and so sane have been his counsels, so masterly his power of statement, that he not only commands today the attention of America, but he is honored by scholars and thinkers throughout the world. He has set an example to all by the simplicity of his life and by his absolute devotion to duty and the public interest. He lays down the cares of office voluntarily at the ripe age of seventy-five while...
Professor Gibbs was graduated from Columbia in 1841. After receiving his degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, he pursued his studies at the University of Berlin, under Liebig at Giessen, and at the College of France at Paris. On his return to America he delivered lectures at Delaware College. From 1849 to 1863, he was professor of physics and chemistry at the College of the City of New York. In that year, he became Rumford professor and lecturer on the application of science to the useful arts. This post he held until his retirement...
...receive from the East is neither complete nor exact. Only the reports that are allowed to be sent are what we get in this country. There is no method of expressing public opinion and feeling in the Philippines; as a result our officials, secure in their distance from America and without the ever-threatening power of the press, do whatever they please...
...Baldwin began his lecture by describing the conditions in the Arctic Sea. There exist vast ice-packs that move slowly along the course of least resistance. The obstruction of Greenland and America on one side and of Asia and the northern archipelago on the other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked...
...Sciences has been created, and has commended itself to students and scholars here and abroad. In the Divinity School the pursuit of truth has been freed from the trammels of sect. To the present improved methods of instruction in medicine he has contributed more than any other person in America. Guided by the man of his choice, the Law School has become the accepted model for the teaching of the Common Law. The School of Business Administration has been established, and a foundation has been prepared for advanced instruction in Applied Science...