Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...marched; many of our men were tired, yet more were full of spirits, and the curves which some of them described would have baffled the most ingenious mathematician. At Bowdom square we disbanded, and the two upper classes rushed for the cars, but '87 and '88 kept on their march, the former leading in unregular lines, the latter following in a compact body. We cross the bridge, and near the scene of many a hard fought battle. '88 forms her lines more clumsily still; she is preparing for a rush. But where is '87? Her men extend in a long...
...long white gown and white "plug" hat and carried a torch. As soon as the collegians had all gathered at the hotel a procession was formed, which marched up Fifth avenue and thence to the grounds of the college. In their midst was carried an effigy representing Legendre, the mathematician. Every now and then when the spirit moved them they groaned dismally until their destination was reached. Then they gathered round the funeral pyre and listened to a gag poem which was recited by the Harnspex of the class. He was followed by the Carnifex who offered up the burnt...
...first term of his junior year, -"admonition for illegal dress." In his sophomore year eighteen members of the class received detours, but Sumner's name is not among them. At the junior exhibition (April 28, 1829) Frost, Andrews, and Sumner were assigned parts in a Greek dialogue, respectively as mathematician, linguist, and orator. Sumner in maintaining the superior claims of the orator was unconsciously some what prophetic of his future. His English translation of the dialogue gives the following as the reply with which he concluded: "You may both despise my profession, but I will yet pursue it. Demosthenes...
Prof. Sylvester was given on Thursday evening a farewell reception by the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University. Among those present was Mr. Matthew Arnold, to whom Professor Sylvester dedicated his treatise on the "Laws of Verse," and who was present at the farewell reception given to the eminent mathematician by the Athenxum Club of London seven years ago, on the occasion of his coming to this country...
...recent professor in an American college is thus honored by the London Spectator. "Professor Sylvester is selected to succeed the late Professor Henry Smith as Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford. Prof. Sylvester is-with perhaps some question as to Professor Cayley-the most brilliant and original mathematician of his time. Nor has the fertility of his genius, it is said, diminished with age, though he is believed to be already seventy. He leaves the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, where his genius has been greatly valued and born large fruit, at Christmas, and will, we suppose, assume...