Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first American expedition was formed and it succeeded in unearthing some of the rarest of all the specimens of tablet-writing, and of the half-human half-beast figures of which there were found many in the excavations. At present a body of American gentlemen, of which Prof. Peters of the University of Pennsylvania is the head, is engaged in discoveries in Babylonia...
...parts of the country, who shall supervise the work of their districts, and shall constitute an Advisory Board. An annual meeting will be held in December for the presentation of reports from secretary and treasurer and election of officers. The following officers were elected for the first year: President, Prof. F. J. Child, of Harvard; vice-president, J. M. Hart, of Cincinnati, Ohio; secretary, Prof. E. C. Sheldon, of Harvard, treasurer, C. H. Grandgent, of Harvard; editing committee, secretary and Messrs. Sylvester Palmer of Charleston. S. C., and G. L. Kittredge, of Harvard; executive committee, all officers already named...
...Prof. Holman of the Tech. has invented a calorimeter for the Harvard medical school...
...which he strove, have now been established. But although his works are not now of the same value as they were, their effect on German life will never cease. Although Herder's effect on German literature will be less lasting than Lessing's, still the nation is his debtor. Prof. Francke regretted that he was unable to more than briefly allude to Schiller and Goethe. In concluding the lecturer spoke of the wide gulf which separates the Germany of Goethe's time, when freedom was the watchword, from the present Germany, where that watch-word is authority...
...Prof. A. B. Hart is at the hospital confined with a very severe cold...