Word: profs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Prof. H. S. Williams, Professor of Geology and Paleontology at Cornell University, has received an offer of the chair of Geology at Yale...
...Prof. E. G. Coy, head of the Greek Department of the Phillips Academy, Andover, has been chosen Head Master of the new Yale Preparatory School at Lakeville, Conn...
...PAUL'S SOCIETY.During the remaining Sundays of the term Rev. Prof. Nash will speak at 2.30 p.m. in 17 Grays, on the following subjects...
...first of a series of lectures by Prof. Goodale on "How to Teach Botany" was given yesterday afternoon in the Botany Lecture Room before an audience composed largely of ladies. The lecture was very instructive and interesting and should have been attended by more of the students whether they intended to teach Botany or not. Before he began his lecture proper Prof. Goodale spoke with a great deal of feeling of the life and work of his friend Dr. Watson who died recently. The lecture dealt with the teaching of elementary Botany and was based mainly on the following ideas...
...Prof. Goodale advocated the teaching of botany to children and defined clearly the parts of the subject which he thought within their grasp. They may study the outward form and more or less of the inward, cell structure of plants; the underlying idea, the vegetal morphology, may also be discovered by them. The child, however, cannot be expected to understand the classification of plants into families, their knowledge must be general, not specific...