Word: professor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This year the address will be delivered by Professor Nathaniel S. Shaler. To those Harvard men who know him or have taken his courses, it is needless to add that what he will have to say is sure to be well worth hearing. The prayer will be offered by Dr. George A. Gordon; Col. Higginson will preside, and the Glee Club will lead the singing...
Next Monday the exercises will have more than their usual significance. Few are as well fitted to speak on such an occasion as Professor Shaler, and now, when Harvard men are about to enter active service, the meaning of Memorial Day comes home to the rising generation more sharply than ever before...
...Professor John T. Trowbridge has in the last two years placed the study of electricity at Harvard in advance of any other college, by means of a powerful apparatus set up in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. This battery, then the strongest in the world, was able to produce sparks in air three feet long...
...Professor Trowbridge has just completed another still more powerful apparatus for the study of electrical force It is capable of producing sparks in air, resembling lightning flashes, of from six to seven feet in length. The discharge creates a sensation as if a window had suddenly been opened letting in a gust of wind, and sparks can be drawn from the brick walls of the room. Sparks closely resembling lightning discharges can be obtained thirty and forty feet in length through glass tubes in which the atmospheric pressure has been reduced to about two pounds and a half...
...Professor Albert B. Hart has an article in the current number of Harper's Monthly entitled "A Century of Cuban Diplomacy," in which he traces the Spanish rule in Cuba, from...