Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...premature death of Dr. Henry Augustus Torrey leaves his many warm friends in deep sorrow. He was chosen in 1903 as instructor of organic chemistry at Harvard because he was believed to command in rare degree, all the varied attributes needed by the successful teacher and investigator. His work immediately vindicated the choice; and he was promoted, in 1905, to an assistant professorship. He succeeded in so illuminating an involved and technical subject as to show clearly the vivid interest of its underlying facts and the ories; moreover, he had already begun to make his mark among the forward looking...
...teacher he was inspiring and effective, beloved and genuinely respected by his students for his accuracy and earnestness, and for his personal interest in them...
Graduating from Harvard College in 1881, Mr. Morgan, after teaching for a time in a secondary school, returned to the University as a student and received the degree of Ph.D. in 1887. He immediately entered the service of the University as a teacher, and, with the exception of a sabbatical year in Europe, has uninterruptedly given his best efforts to Harvard and its students...
...death of Professor Morris Hicky Morgan '81, the University has lost a valued administrator, scholar, teacher, and friend. Active in these fields, as well as in the capacity of editor and author, his life was constructive and his work full of human sympathy. Harvard has lost a devoted scholar, learned not only in the classics, but keenly alive to contemporary activities. It is difficult for those who did not know him to appreciate how deeply his death will be felt...
...call to serve man drew him to the Law School. "His labors both as professor and administrator were very much increased by his habit of holding himself at the disposal of any student or any teacher at any time. He was always accessible." To express the source of inspiration which he was to one of his older pupils, who never saw Mr. Ames after graduating from the school, Mr. Williston quotes this letter...