Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...SUCCESS is a good memory, without which the student, business man or scientist loses what he gains. Professor Loisette's wonderful discovery enables his pupils to learn any book in one reading. Endorsed by Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer; Hon. W. W. Astor, late U. S. Minister to Italy; Hon. John Gibson, President Judge 19th Judicial District, Penn.; Hon. Judah P. Benjamin, the famous jurist, and hundreds of others who have all been his pupils. The system is taught by correspondence. Classes of 1087 at Baltimore, 1005 at Detroit, and 1500 on return visit to Philadelphia. Address Prof. Loisette...
...more than a pleasing sentiment: it must be a deep, powerful influence coming from a sense of the incomprehensibility of God and working to save the world from shallowness and failure. It is to be left neither to saints nor to cranks. The child must have it; the scientist and the mechanic. By reverence alone, which is the hiding of the eyes before the mystery and the majesty of God, can we know and see God. This deep feeling of reverence does not come from palsied inactivity, but from steadfast work. The more we serve God, the more sublime...
...Lubeck merchant has bequeathd 300,000 marks to the University of Jena, toward the founding of a Darwinian professorship; Prof. Haeckel, the world-renowned scientist, has the administration of the bequest in his charge. - Tokio Independent...
...very fortunate in having in our midst another eminent archaeologist, so shortly after Professor Lanciani's regretted departure. Mr. Charles Waldstein, a young American scientist who has acquired an eminent name in science and letters, is spending a few days in Cambridge and will deliver a lecture in Sanders Theatre on Friday evening. Mr. Waldstein is director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Reader in the University of Cambridge, England, and has lately had the distinguished compliment paid him of being appointed permanent director of the American Archaeological School at Athens...
This miserable system, or rather this miserable lack of system, prevails in all the German universities in a greater or less degree, according to the size of the libraries. And yet the German student lives and learns and becomes the famous philologist, or the famous scientist, whose works are kept in our American libraries at the disposal of everybody. He knows and cares for nothing better, and it were cruel indeed to tell him how much more favored we Americans are. "Where ignorance is bliss...