Word: benjamin
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Peirce had received rigorous training in logic and mathematics from his father, the mathematician Benjamin Peirce. Like John Stuart Mill, he emerged from the strict regimen of paternal instruction years ahead of his contemporaries in intellectual development. Yet despite his acknowledged power and originally as a thinker, Peirce never cultivated sufficient tact or domesticity to appeal to Harvard under Eliot...
...with it, if by nothing more then geography, was an outstanding array of gifted and vigorous men. The home-grown Atlantic Monthly was then publishing the work of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier, and Charles Eliot Norton. In science, to which James initially devoted his efforts, Asa Gray, Benjamin Peirce, and Louis Agassiz stood at the forefront. His earliest chemistry teacher, who--like Conant--later renounced a scientific career to become president of Harvard, found James "very interesting and agree able" but somewhat impulsive and of fickle academic tastes...
...named Nathaniel Welch of Auburn, Ala., to the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board, appointed four members to the Battle of Lake Erie Sesquicentennial Celebration Commission, notified Philadelphia that the Navy would name a Polaris submarine after Benjamin Franklin, made a phone call that commenced a year-long mechanical countdown toward the 1964 opening of the New York World's Fair...
...century ago, the U.S. Government established a main office of its Coast and Geodetic Survey in Boston in order to be close to Benjamin Pierce, professor of Mathematics in Harvard University and the leading American mathematician of his time...
...last 96 years, the Washington Star has had but three editors-two by the name of Noyes, who happened to own a piece of the paper, and Benjamin McKelway, who sneaked in from the outside as a Noyes protégé. Last week the Star got a new editor, and his name was no surprise: Newbold Noyes...