Word: professor
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...most of it to the influence of metaphysics. It seemed to be February again, and our instructor had told us to procure tickets at the bookstore for a series of lectures three times a week for the rest of the year on the "Manly Art of Self-Defence," by Professor W. Hamilton, of England. It was a rare chance to procure scientific knowledge of the subject; and Lister at $20 a dozen lessons was nowhere. The lecture-room had a raised platform at one end, on which the Professor stood, and the walls were adorned with prints of ancient...
...first few lectures were on the dignity and importance of the art, and explanatory of the scientific terms. The Professor was very philosophical in his treatment of the subject. He divided it up into motions of attack and defence, and then into motions of attack and defence for each part of the body; and each motion he analyzed into positions at its beginning, middle, and end. He claimed that these divisions were his own, and the only philosophical ones, - and there was a tendency among the audience to consider him conceited, for there was much ego in his speech...
...impossible to give any idea of the monotony which attended these lectures. If we only had had an opportunity to bet on which would win, the Professor or Reid, we might have kept awake voluntarily; but even that feeble excitement was denied us. Dread of an examination was all that kept us from going to sleep. And the dread was fully justified by the examination when it came: "In a certain case, what is the defence advocated by Reid and Stewart, and what are Hamilton's objections to it, - explaining, also, his defence?" "Give in full the rules...
...AGED PROFESSOR (to student at end of bench). Why is yonder organ like unto a widow...
...PROFESSOR AGASSIZ is making arrangements to obtain the services of a distinguished naturalist for those students interested in natural history who propose to elect the course marked Zoology. The name of the gentleman is, for reasons best known to Professor Agassiz, at present withheld. It is sufficient to know that he stands among the first in his profession...