Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plans for the new Columbia gymnasium presented by the class of 1886, were discussed by Prof. Van Amringe at a meeting of the alumni last Thursday. The building is to cost $125,000 and to occupy 4 city lots...
...Prof. Alexander Agassiz, curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, has just received the honorary degree of doctor in science from the University of Cambridge...
...crowded chapel awaited the service in Appleton Chapel last evening, at which Prof. Harris, - whose name has been brought prominently forward in the recent Andover trial, - was to preach. The service opened with a short prayer, which was followed by the reading of the Seventy-second Psalm. The long prayer was a petition for unity and peace among all people. After a hymn sung by the congregation, Prof. Harris gave out the text from St. Matthew, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." This was humanitarianism. A comparison of unreligious and Christian humanitarianism would be the subject of the sermon...
Scribner, for March, will contain an article on "The Stability of the Earth," by Prof. N. S. Shaler...
...first number of the Epoch, a new weekly published in New York, has appeared. It contains a large number of interesting and well-written articles, contributed by men of no less distinction than Carl Schurz, Mr. Stedman and Prof. Boyesen. The editorials are written in a conservative spirit, and treat the great questions of the day in a sensible, moderate way. The book notices are particularly copious and well done. If the Epoch continues as it has begun, the editors may feel confident of having supplied a need that was felt in the journalistic world...