Word: horsford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be provided of a lower grade than that given in Harvard College." The circular was distributed with the signature of Mr. Gilman as secretary and the names of Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. James B. Greenough, Mrs. E. W. Gurney, Miss Lilian Horsford and Miss Alice, M. Longfellow. Under less favorable sponsorship and without the firm support of President Eliot of Harvard it would hardly have become firmly established or have survived long...
...first professorship of chemistry at Harvard was founded in 1791, without laboratory facilities, but it was not until 1847 that a few of the special students received laboratory instruction from Professor Horsford in the Lawrence Scientific school. Charles W. Eliot was really the first undergraduate to receive any considerable opportunity to study the subject, the pamphlet relates. Because he had incurred the approbation of Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke, he was permitted the use of the Professor's private laboratory, and spent a large part of his time there. After he became President of the University in later years, he maintained...