Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph Henry, first a teacher in a boys' school, then professor of physics at Princeton, constructed the first real electromagnet, the first telegraph and printing telegraph, had a wireless set with which his family used to call him from the laboratory to his meals, and most important of all, discovered, jointly with Faraday, the laws of electromagnetic induction which underlie all electric power machinery. And when urged by his friends to press his claims for patent rights he answered that his scientific work was too important to be hampered by attending to such trivial matters...
...Reverand Sherard Buildings '80, of Groton, teacher of Haughton. In his schoolboy days and his lifelong friend, opened the simple dedicatory exercises with a prayer. Following him came Dean Briggs. Then the memorial was presented to the University by J.W. Farley '99, Chairman of the Haughton Memorial at Committee, and formally accepted by C.F. Adams '88, Treasurer of the University, who said in part, "We are glad to have this memory kept fresh in the heads and hearts of the generations of Harvard boys who will use this field in the hope that it will inspire them also to give...
...Benvenuto di Giovanni, "Madonna Enthroned with Saints," and a triptych by Niccolo Da Foligno, "Madonna Enthroned between Saint Sebastin and Saint Francis." In celebration of the Norton centenary he now gives both of these pictures outright to the Fogg Museum, one in memory of Charles Eliot Norton, his teacher, the other in memory of Richard Norton, son of Professor Norton and friend of Mr. Forbes...
...America as part of the program in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Professor Charles Eliot Norton's birth may seem unusual to those who are not familiar with Professor Norton's great services to the cause of archaeology. In 1879, soon after he had been appointed as a teacher at Harvard; Professor Norton sent out invitations to a group of friends, suggesting the establishment of the Archaeological Institute of America...
...students that one must look for an exposition of Charles Eliot Norton, the man. Enough has been said, however, to make clear to the younger generation his general character and aims. On that basis one may well cite a tribute which Mr. Norton once made to another great teacher, a friend of his and a fellow worker in the interests of the University--his sketch of the life of Francis James Child. Concerning Professor Child Mr. Norton wrote these words, and they fit not only the man whom they describe but the man who penned them. "To those...