Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last Cambridge Tribune had a long review of Prof. Laughlin's Bimetalism...
...education at Cornell is in high favor, for Sage College is full. Hon. Henry W. Sage lately gave $60,000 for the endowment of a chair in Christian ethics and mental philosophy, and next year there comes to the university as head of the department of Philosophy Prof. J. G. Schuman, who at present holds a chair at Dalhousie College, Halifax. Furthermore, the department of oriental languages will be discontinued. Next year, beside the probable establishment of the Cornell law school, special attention will be paid to the classical and chemical departments, each of which will be built...
...Prof. W. S. Chaplin lectured last evening in Sever 11 on "Engineering as a Profession." The subject was treated in a very comprehensive and satisfactory...
...London Academy says that the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society has been awarded conjointly to Prof. Pritchard of Oxford, and Professor Pickering of Harvard, for their valuable observations and researches in stellar photometry...
...recent gift of Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, to Wellesley College may well be a source of gratification to all interested in the higher education of women. By the terms of this gift the heads of the department at Wellesley are to have "Sabbatical years," after the manner of Harvard professors. Says the Cambridge Tribune: "It seems most fitting that the means for all this should have come from a citizen of Cambridge, the success of whose great university is owing in no small measure to the self-sacrificing efforts and direct benefactions of women from the time...