Word: leipsic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...made Doctor of Philosophy. He received his doctor's degree for special study in comparative philology, and his is the only Ph.D. ever given by Harvard for work in this branch of study. A traveling scholarship was awarded to him, and he went to Leipsic for a year. He is the author of several articles on comparative philology which have appeared from time to time in Harvard classical papers...
...born at Oberlin, Ohio, on May 25th, 1844, of old New England stock on both sides. The house of his grandfather in Mansfield, Massachusetts, is still occupied by members of his family. He was graduated at Oberlin College in 1863, and after teaching some years he went to Leipsic to continue his studies, where he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1870. On his return home he taught in Tennessee University. A brilliant paper which he read at the meeting of the American Philological Association in 1871 attracted the attention of several members of this faculty, notably...
Professor Allen was born in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1844. After graduating at Oberlin College in 1863, he studied for several years at the University of Leipsic. In 1866 he became a professor at the University of Tennessee. He left that institution to accept a professorship in the University of Cincinnati and was called from there to a chair at Yale. After a short stay at Yale he accepted in 1880 the chair of classical philology at Harvard, which he held at the time of his death...
...Discharge of Electricity in Gases," and also a lecture to the faculty, graduates and advanced students in the college on "The System of Graduate Courses in Cambridge University." Professor Andrew Seth of Edinburgh University, delivered two lectures on "Theism." Karl Brugmann, Professor of Indogermanic Philology in the University of Leipsic, delivered a lecture in German on "The Nature and origin of the Noun Genders in the Indogermanic Languages." The last of the lectures was given by A. A. W. Hubrecht, Professor of Zoology in the University of Utrecht, Holland, on "The Descent of the Primates...
...University of Michigan loses a valuable man in the appointment of Professor Frank A. Cole to a professorship in the department of Mathematics at Columbia. Dr. Cole graduated from Harvard in 1882 and immediately became a student under Professor Klein, the great professor of mathematics at Leipsic. He was with Professor Klein three years, and was one of his favorite and most distinguished pupils. He returned to Harvard and occupied the position of a lecturer and tutor. Since 1888 he has been an assistant professor of mathematics in the University of Michigan. He has a high repute as an investigator...