Word: heading
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Camberlain lectured in Sever Hall last night on the "Song-birds of New England." He said: Nearly all of our common birds are included in the division of Oscines or singers. Oscines stand at the head of the classified list of birds as naturalists have decided that they are the most perfectly organized physiologically. We have about 350 species of birds in New England, which may be divided into five classes; first, those that remain with us all the time; second, those that come to us from the south in summer; third, those that come from the north in autumn...
...young German a life career. An educated man makes a special study of water-works or building-laws or poor-relief. He learns the methods of the best European cities. He serves his time in the administration of some small town, and, perhaps, gets a place at the head of his chosen department in some small city, and tries to make that department a model of efficiency and economy; finally, he is promoted to the same work in one of the great cities of the kingdom. Here, if successful, he holds a life office with the assurance of a pension...
...singular provision that the interest from all his donations shall be used only in payment of salaries of professors. This accounts for the high salaries that are offered and the ease with which prominent men from other colleges are induced to change the field of their work. The head professor will receive $7,000 a year. As to denominational tendencies, Mr. Harper says that the university will be run upon broad principles, being no more a distinctively Baptist college, as has been stated, than Yale is a Congregational college...
William I. Knapp, of Yale, head professor of the Romance Languages and Literature...
Albion W. Small, now president of Colby University, head professor of Social Science...