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...Bowditch was a true son of Harvard and an exponent of the best traditions of New England. Grandson of the great navigator and mathematician, Nathaniel Bowditch, son of the eminent merchant and trusted administrator, Ingersoll Bowditch, nephew of the noble physician, Henry I. Bowditch, and near relative of the distinguished Pickerings of Salem, he was a Boston boy; a Harvard Bachelor of Arts of '61; a soldier throughout the war, wounded only to re-enlist; and thereafter continuously a worker in the service of his University, as student and honored teacher of physiology, until serious illness forced him from...
...academic and literary circles, the recent discovery by William Stone Booth of acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon systematically embodied in the poems the sonnets and all of the plays usually attributed to William Shakespeare, and elsewhere. He foresees that the acceptance of Mr. Booth's discoveries by, the mathematician and historian will lead to the rewriting of the history of English literature of the period shortly before and after 1600, and to the destruction of the modern Shakespeare myth. Let us hope that we are now to have a fair and dispassionate study and presentation of the Shakespeare-Bacon problem...
Poseidonius, who closely followed Polybius, is becoming more and more recognized as one of the great historians. He was a stole and a close friend of Pompey, with whom he travelled extensively. Besides being a historian, Poseidonius was a philosopher, a geographer, an astronomer, and a mathematician, and played an important part in the political life of his times...
...Echegaray, who is also noted as a mathematician and statesman, high rank is universally accorded among the play-wrights of our own day. Not long ago he was awarded the Nobel prize, as a tribute to his artistic powers. It is to the problem play that Echegaray has given his greatest attention, and the fullest measure of his success in this direction may be seen in the piece which Mr. Faversham now offers in a form somewhat different from that in which Mr. Blair presented it in Boston, 1899, but sufficiently faithful to the original. From first to last...
Professor Peirce was the son of Benjamin Peirce '21, who was also Perkins Professor, and a famous mathematician. He was born in Cambridge, May 1, 1834, twelve days after the birth of President Eliot, and graduated from Harvard College in 1853, in the same class with the President, taking his degree of Master of Arts in 1856. At this time he intended to become a Unitarian clergyman and six years after taking his degree of A. B., graduated from the Divinity School, which at that time gave no degree. Professor Peirce did not follow this plan, however, but spent...