Word: professors
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...PROFESSOR of Political Economy and Constitutional Law is to be appointed in the University of Nebraska, with a salary of $1,500. A graduate of Harvard is desired. For information apply at No. 5, University Hall...
THURSDAY evening Professor Trowbridge delivered the fifth of the Natural History lectures at the Theatre on "Unseen Motion." The audience was the largest thus far, and the experiments were very interesting. We hope that the Natural History Society will give us another course next year...
...success of the lectures given under the auspices of the Natural History Society leads us to hope not only that the course may be continued next year, but that lectures may be delivered on other subjects as well. The attendance at Professor Hedge's lectures on German literature is so large, even at the inconvenient hour of four in the afternoon, that the lecture-room is insufficient for the audience. If the evening readings could now and then be varied by lectures of a literary character, the authors read would be listened to with doubled interest. Most undergraduates...
DIED in Cambridge, on the 18th of March, Hon. Emory Washburn, aged 77. At the time of his resignation, a few months ago, Governor Washburn was the senior professor in the University, having filled his chair for twenty years. He had previously borne high office, and performed distinguished service, alike in the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the State government, and had been, from his early manhood, a successful and honored member of the legal profession. He was a man of excellent ability, of the most strenuous diligence, of an integrity absolutely impenetrable, and of a benevolence which made...
...advantages arising from that palladium of our college liberties, the elective system, was that we should be allowed to select the direction in which to grow wise. I fondly believed that after our Freshman year we were supposed to know what we wanted to learn, and that the learned professor would do his best to give us instruction in that subject and that subject only. For instance, I imagined that when a man took our Fine Arts elective he was supposed to be consumed with a burning desire for useful knowledge concerning the construction of aesthetic chimney-pots and fences...