Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Isaac Newton was the first to observe the effect produced by a prism on light but was opposed in his theories by Goethe...
...Harvard spoke after Dr. Bancroft. Among the other speakers were President Carter of Williams, Dr. Scott of Exeter, and Mr. Stuart of New Haven. The Andover Academy Glee Club was present and sang several times during the evening, one of the songs having been written for this reunion by Isaac McLellan, one of the alumni...
...George A. Adee. Following were some of the toasts: "Athletics at Yale," responded to by Prof. E. L. Richards, '60; "From Quinsigamond to the Thames," responded to by W. C. Gulliver, '70; "Graduate Interest in Boating," responded to by Anthony Higgins, '61; "The Girls in Blue," responded to by Isaac H. Bromley, '55: "The Last Half Mile," responded to by Almet F. Jenks, '75; "The Sons of Yale," responded to by E. G. Mason, '60; and "Would-be Oarsmen," responded to by Watson R. Sperry, '71. Hon. Henry E. Howland presided, and the dinner broke up at a late...
...cited as having asked Prof. Stuart whether there were many Hebrew scholars in his classes, and the reply was very few. Still there were able Hebrew and Oriental professors four or five decades ago, and the early professors of Hebrew at the University of the City of New York, Isaac Nordheimer, Edward Robinson and Taylor Lewis, were men whose learning left its impress on their time...
...mournful Ballad of Isaac Abbott: E. P. Cranch. Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati...