Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rose" Mr. Hardy's interesting serial is concluded in this number, also Miss Bellamy's "Hannah Collinse's Jim." There are several interesting essays on history and politics-among which are the "The People in Government" by H. C. Merwin, "Why our Science Students go to Germany" by S. Sheldon and "A French Bishop of the Fifteenth Century" by F. C. Lowell. Miss Harriet W. Preston continues a series of papers on Roman history with a sketch of Cicero's closing years, entitled "Before the Assassination." There are two short stories, "The King's Cup and Cake" by Sophie...
...electricity or not. Professor B. O. Peirce and Dr. Wilson are trying to determine the rate of flow of electricity into large reservoirs, for instance, into cables; in this investigation the greatest accuracy is necessary, as extremely small fractional parts come into play. Professor J. Trowbridge and Dr. S. Sheldon are at work on Electro motive forces, while Professor J. Trowbridge and Mr. Sabine propose to study the surface to the moon and determine its character by means of the absorption of the ultra-violet rays by surfaces of rock, ice and snow...
...Sheldon Jackson lectured in Sanders Theatre last evening on "Alaska and its Indians." A large audience gathered, in spite of the disagreeable weather, and heard an interesting account of a remote and greatly misjudged portion of the United States. Dr. Jackson first described the vast extent of Alaska, stating that it was almost equal in size to all the states east of the Mississippi, and its natural resources. He said that the income to our national treasury from the fur industry alone had more than paid the price of purchase from Russia. Besides the seals and fur-bearing animals, there...
...secured, and a careful study of the influences which gave origin to them be made. Those most actively connected with the work of the society are especially desirous that students be interested in the work, for they are in a position to render valuable assistance. Professor E. S. Sheldon will be pleased to give anyone who is interested or feels that he is likely to be interested in the work more definite information regarding...
...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 and Prof. B. J. Wheeler, of Cornell, C. F. Smith of Vanderbilt, and F. A. Allen, of Harvard...