Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Rebellion, Devens and Bartlett, went to Harvard. Of the reformers, Wendell Phillips was Motley's classmate at Harvard, Garrison had no college education, and Horace Mann graduated at Brown. From Brown, too, came Dr. S. G. Howe, instructor of the blind. Bulfinch, the architect, and Peirce, the mathematician, went to Harvard; Agassiz fitted at several Continental universities. Franklin, Bowditch, the navigator, and Putnam, the settler of the Northwest, had no college education. Five of the original colonists - Winthrop, Carver, Endicott, Bradford and Vane - are appropriately remembered; the first studied at Trinity College, Dublin, the last at Oxford...
Prof. A. S. Hardy of Dartmouth, the distinguished novelist and mathematician, has obtained a leave of absence and will succeed Howells as editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine...
Prof. A. S. Hardy of Dartmouth, the distinguished novelist and mathematician has obtained a leave of absence, and will succeed Howells as editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine...
...Wentworth, the well known mathematician, has resigned his position at Exeter...
...Hill was remarkable for the breadth of his interests, and for the great originality of his mind. Wherever he went, his influence and aid helped on whatever undertaking made for the good of the society about him. He was a natural mathematician, and distinguished for great originality and fertility in the investigation of curves, adding to their known number and simplifying their expression. He was a voluminous writer, and much of his work may be found scattered in the periodicals, especially in those devoted to mathematics and theology. Many of the modern tendencies at Harvard took their rise during...