Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Among the greatest of the early colonial writers are Increase and Cotton Mather, father and son. They were able and so far beyond the learned men of New England of the day that Prof. Coit Tyler devotes a chapter to "The Dynasty of the Mathers." To be a scholar was part of the family inheritance." Of Increase Mather, the first native American who was president of Harvard College, Prof. Tyler says :-"By the great force of his learning, his logic, his sense, his eloquence, his sagacity and audacity in partilsan command, he became, during the first thirty years of that...
...SATURDAY.History and Methods of Classical Study. Prof. Allen, Sever 14, 11 A, M. The second of a series of lectures to be given on Saturdays during the first half-year. They are intended for the guidance of those who have in mind a somewhat extended course of study in Classics. Any students who is taking courses in Greek or Latin is at liberty to attend them...
...Dartmouth professor of mathematics. This truly is deplorable. The stage and the novel arrayed as enemies of the college ! That so unheard of a thing as conspicuous talent, as genius should be exhibited by a college professor is enough to shake the very foundations of the learned universe. Prof. Beers, of Yale, also we learn is writing stories for the Century and the Continent; and last of all it is reported that a Columbia professor has received an offer to become the regular writer of plays for the Madison Square Theatre of New York...
...Prof. Wentworth is now acting as principal of Phill..ps Exeter Academy...
...Prof. Hill delivered a lecture to the sophomores yesterday, explanatory of the work to be pursued this year in rhetoric and themes. It will be his only lecture until next term...