Word: geologist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...industries as they exist with an idea of their former growth and of their future. To this end the club has engaged men who have been familiar with their respective branches for many years. Mr. Thomas Pray will deliver the lecture on "Cotton" and Professor T. Sterry Hunt, the geologist, whose knowledge of the iron resources of the country is unrivalled, that on "Iron." Within the week the club expects to have secured a lecturer on "Wool" and the list will then be complete...
...foremost scholars in America are Drs. G. W. Hawes and M. E. Wadsworth, the latter being professor of petrography here at Harvard, which is the only American college employing a professor of petrography exclusively. The present chair is maintained by the generosity of Prof. J. D. Whitney, the geologist...
...here as compared with Ann Arbor. I and chum have to pay $5.00 a week for room and $6.00 a week for table-board apiece, making $17.00 a week, outside of all other expenses. . . . A son of Greek-Grammar Hadley is our professor in German, and a son of Geologist Dana in physic. All those famous men - Loomis, Dana, Sr., Whitney, etc., - never sniff at a class lower than the senior. They serve as elegant figureheads to give the college a 'rep.' However, you must not give me away in this, as the professors are reverenced here." - [Michigan Argonaut...
Prof. Cook, the New Jersey geologist, finds that the coast is gradually receding before the ocean waves...
Important to Pres. and Prof. Our latest publication, " Moses as a Geologist," is meeting with immense success. Last summer one student, who was very shrewd and energetic, succeeded in earning his board. We need a large number of canvassers, and if you will recommend to us pupils of yours, we engage, on our part, to send you for every canvasser a prize-package and full-size tin-type of the celebrated sandlots agitator. - Henry Bill...