Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Josiah Strong, D.D., and both were very interesting and instructive. The other course is under the auspices of the Phi Beta Kappa society, the first lecture of which will be given next Wednesday evening by President Dwight, who will talk on "What a Yale Student should be." Later on, Prof. Hadley will lecture on "Congressional Regulation of Railroads." Professor Wheeler and Ex-Gov. D. H. Chamberlain have also agreed to deliver lectures in this course, as have Senators Hawley and Allison, unless they be prevented by pressure of their public business...
Last evening Prof. Frothingham delivered the third of the series of lectures on Assyrian Archaeology. The beginning of Babylonian art can be traced to the earliest historical period of Babylon, about 4000 B. C. From that period on we possess inscriptions for nearly every century from colossal temples and statues. Northern Babylonia was the first art centre, but in the third milennium Ur, in Southern Babylonia became the centre. There came a third period when the North was again the seat of artisti life, which gradually declined in vigor up to the capture of Babylon by the Assyrians. There...
...Prof. Trowbridge of Harvard will lecture before the Cambridge Social Union on electricity, Thursday evening...
...Prof. Edward Oakley, LL. D., the eminent mathematician, was found dead in his bed Sunday morning from heart disease. He was the author of numerous and generally used works on mathematics. For the last thirty years he has been professor of mathematics in the University of Michigan...
...whether she shall adopt the system in vogue at Harvard, - of having eminent ministers from the neighboring cities, preach each Sunday. This discussion turns our attention to an advantage we are enabled to enjoy, which, however, too few men seem to appreciate. When we consider the great pains Prof. Peabody takes in this matter of supplying the chapel pulpit Sunday evenings, it seems to us that the congregation should be made up more largely of students and less of Cambridge people. These ministers, in many cases, come from great distances for the sake of delivering one address to Harvard...