Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fellows in appointing Robert Henri Harrison, D. V. S., instructor in anatomy and assistant surgeon in the veterinary hospital for three years from September 1, 1884; John wesley Houston, A. B., and George Willaim Browne, A. B., Proctors; Nathaniel Thayer Kidder, instructor in botany for the current academic year; Benjamin Osgood Pierce, Ph. D., assistant professor of mathematics and physics for 5 years from September 1, 1884; Professor Crawford H. Toy, a member of the library council, in place of Professor Ezra Abbott, deceased ; William B. Goldsmith, M. D., clinical instructor in mental diseases for the year...
...BENJAMIN BOWDITCH THAYER, of New York...
...statue of Benjamin Silliman is to be placed in front of Farnham Hall at Yale...
...Penn into Stylus, Prince into Princeps, True into Verus, Clark into Scriba, Rest into Requies, Kinsman into Consanguineous, Oxenbridge into Bovepons; Greenlief into Viridfolium, etc., and he was doubtless utterly stumped by Nyot, Leverett, Zoheth, Gad, Elbtidge, Epes, Byron and Shearjashub. Many Hebrew names stand unchanged, as Jared, Samuel, Benjamin, Thomas. James is "Latinized" into Jacobus, so that no "us" can be attached to Jacob, as is done in Adamus, Sethus, Abrahamus and Isaacus...
...contact with these men feels that he is bettered by that contact and that he is bettered by that contact and those who did not know them still feel their influence in the higher tone that pervades the university. Unfortunately the circle of such men as Ezra Abbott and Benjamin Pierce is but small at Harvard and every day it is growing smaller. Those that still remain may go at any moment and we cannot help feeling that we belong to the privileged few who yet may know them...