Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...father of Prof. Willard Fiske, late of Cornell University, died in Ithaca on Sunday, at the age of eighty...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-It would amaze some instructors to see the freshmen rush for seats at Prof. Cooke's chemistry lecture. Generally there has been a large number about the door fifteen or twenty minutes before the hour. Would it not be convenient to open the door early, so that those fortunate enough to get there before the hour could quietly take their seats without being forced through the door by the pressure of the eager crowd behind? At the last lecture the balustrade at the head of the stairs was very nearly broken, and had there been...
...Rosenbursch, Zirkel and Cohen. The foremost scholars in America are Drs. G. W. Hawes and M. E. Wadsworth, the latter being professor of petrography here at Harvard, which is the only American college employing a professor of petrography exclusively. The present chair is maintained by the generosity of Prof. J. D. Whitney, the geologist...
...congratulate Prof. Boyesen on the success of his play, and bespeak for it a long run. That the stage is a legitimate and profitable field for the pens of the literary men of our time and country cannot be doubted, and any play, with real literary merit, as well as the merit of action, tends to raise the tone of the stage and thereby benefits society...
...prize essays for the cause of science and higher literature would form an interesting one for investigation, either in its historical or its theoretical aspects. It is said to be a commonplace of criticism that no good thing can come out of a prize essay. A recent writer instances Prof. Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" as the only composition of this sort that has proved an exception to this rule. We do not know of any cases of prize essays from American colleges that can be called such exceptions. It is possible that there are such, however...