Word: professor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Professor John Williams White left for Europe last week to spend his Sabbatical year. He will stay two months in St. Petersburg and from there go to Greece, stopping on his way at several large continental cities to make a study of valuable manuscripts in their libraries...
...Professor Trowbridge has recently discovered a method by which he has obtained a more intense source of heat than has ever been reached before. By means of it he will be able to study metals under new conditions of temperature. At present he is engaged in experimenting with gases, in the hope of obtaining spectra similar to those exhibited by the stars. With the new apparatus he has also produced x-rays of remarkable intensity and penetrating power...
...prominent geologist, died yesterday in Columbus, Ohio. He was a graduate of Hamilton College and of Lane Seminary, and in 1852-53 was a student in the Lawrence Scientific School. In 1872 he became president of the Ohio State University, where he had for some time been a professor of geology. In 1882 he was made state geologist of Ohio, a position which he has filled ever since. He was also president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...Professor Hadley's cabinet was completed yesterday by the election of F. Tyler to be university treasurer, in place of W. W. Farnam, who has held the office for eleven years, practically during the whole of President Dwight's administration...
...Harvard Engineering Society. Annual Public Lecture. The Mental and Moral Influence of an Engineering Education. Professor C. A. Adams. Sever...