Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...take it that it is not concerning that sort of educational career that you wish me to speak. Herbert Spencer would be an example of the men who have made notable contributions to education, and yet no one would call Herbert Spencer primarily a teacher. He is a scientist, and among other subjects studied education. All well-equipped educators should have a knowledge of the science of the subject, although it is not essential to the teaching profession that scientific knowledge of university principles should be uppermost in his mind. Some of the very best teachers I have known...
...questions of stability. No progress was made in aeroplanes until Langley showed that the estimation of power necessary to lift a given weight was erroneous. Maxim took up the Work of Langley and contrived to lift 8,000 pounds by the proper balancing of horizontal planes. Lielienthal, a German scientist, attacked the problem of stability which had hitherto impeded any practical progress in mechanical aviation. Mr. Merrill then showed stereopticon views of the gliders invented by Lielienthal and explained the two varieties of stability against which the aeronaut has to contend...
...require a broad education of engineers. He dwelt at length upon the untiring industry, the great versatility, and the great fund of information of the late Dean Shaler, under whom the Lawrence Scientific School attained great importance. Dean Shaler was a poet and a philosopher, as well as a scientist and an engineer. It was chiefly he who influenced Gordon McKay to make his great bequest to Harvard...
Professor H. S. Hering, M.E., C.S.B., one of the official lecturers of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, will deliver a lecture on "Christian Science, the Science of Salvation," in Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock...
Finally, one must praise Mr. Berenson for the admirable clearness of his style. Not only can be command the memorable adjective on occasion, but he can state intricate aesthetic problems with refreshing simplicity and describe the attributes of a painting or its author with a precision which a scientist might envy and a quality which stamps it as literary. He is to be congratulated on having accomplished the most important work of its kind which has appeared in the last decade from the pen of any English speaking art critic...