Word: professor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Professor Copeland will give his first reading of the year in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock. The reading will consist of passages from the works of Kipling and Leacock. Only members of the University are invited, and the doors will be closed promptly at five minutes past the hour...
...Professor Edward Charles Pickering S.B. '65, died here Monday evening after a brief illness. In the death of Professor Pickering the University loses still another prominent member of the Faculty and an honored graduate...
...Professor Pickering was Director of the University Observatory, and held the Paine Professorship of Practical Astronomy. He ranked in seniority all but one of the other active professors of the University. He was born in Boston on July 19, 1846 and received his early education at the Boston Latin School. He graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School in 1865, and in 1880 the University conferred upon him the degree of A.M. Ever since, with the exception of nine years spent in teaching at M. I. T., he has been connected with the Astronomical Department of the University, holding various professorships...
...reputation of Professor Pickering as one of the world's leading astronomers is wide-spread. Under his direction the Observatory greatly widened its scope, until it had built up a system of correspondence with observatories and private astronomers all over the world through which discoveries and observations were compared and verified. He established the Observatory's auxiliary station at Arequipa, Peru, and devised many new methods of astronomical photography...
...Professor Pickering has received the degrees of LL.D., Ph.D., D. Sc., and L. H. D. from numerous universities. He has been honored by the scientific societies of many European countries, and was author and editor of a large number of scientific books...