Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Prof. Alexander Johnston will address the Princeton Club on February 3, at the Hotel Brunswick, on the subject, "New Princeton." The portrait of President McCosh, recently painted by the Hungarian artist, Munkacsy, will be on exhibition...
...annual dinner of the Alumni of the University of the city of New York was given at Delmonico's last Thursday evening. Addresses were made by the chairman, Judge Van Brunt; William Allen Butler, the Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry, the Rev. Dr. John Hall, Chancellor of the University; Prof. Henry M. Baird, Dr. Charles Inslee Pardee A. J. Vanderpool, John E. Parsons, the Rev. Howard Crosby, Prof. R. Ogden Loremus, and Chauncey Depew...
...following extract from a letter written by Prof. Abraham S. Isaacs of the University of New York to the New York Evening Post, may be found of interest to the collage...
...late as 1817 a Hebrew, oration was annually delivered at Harvard. Prof. Edward J. Young, formerly of Cambridge, has given (in a paper before the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 1880), some amusing illustrations of the difficulty experienced in teaching Hebrew at Harvard in old colonial days. For instance, Michael Wigglesworth, who taught in 1653, writes...
Sidney Willard, who was professor at Harvard from 1807 to 1831, in a passage cited by Prof. Young, refers to his small Hebrew classes, and "the general impression" that "the value of such learning does not repay the labor and pains necessary to be undergone in its requirement." Willard is cited as having asked Prof. Stuart whether there were many Hebrew scholars in his classes, and the reply was very few. Still there were able Hebrew and Oriental professors four or five decades ago, and the early professors of Hebrew at the University of the City of New York, Isaac...