Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made by the English university of Cambridge, in the person of Prof. W. W. Goodwin. Your eminent Greek scholar is to receive the honorary degree of LL. D. at Cambridge on the 12th of June, in company with Sir John Lubbock, Matthew Arnold, M. Pasteur, the great French chemist; George F. Watts, the painter; General Menabrea, the Italian minister in London; Sir Alexander Grant, the principal of Edinburgh University, and other distinguished men. Professor Goodwin's honor is not only well deserved, but it is peculiarly appropriate as coming from Cambridge, where his books have been in use for several...
Prof. H. W. Wiley, who has been appointed chief chemist of the United States Department of Agriculture, is a graduate of Harvard...
Baron Justus von Liebig, the celebrated chemist, is to have a monument at Munich, on the Maximillian's Platz, in the public gardens. It is being made of Carrara marble, heroic size, by Prof. Wegmuller, of Munich...
Pass on a score of years, and what has our professor become? A workman with a sledge-hammer, trying to drive his hobbies into the heads of his pupils. If he be a chemist, the world to him is one great molecule, whose properties must be found; and he is bent on showering globules of his solution on all who approach him. If he is a zoologist, he regards you as an animal, and discovers, if you have six toes, the bond of kinship between you and extinct ichthyosauri. If a linguist, he is for ever overwhelming you with dead...