Word: william
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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April 12.- Rev. George William Douglas, D. D., of New Haven, Conn...
...four of the graduates of 1851 have achieved notable successes: William L. Jones, professor of geology in the University af Georgia; Joseph Le Conte, professor of geology and natural history in the University of California; John D. Runkle, professor of mathematics in Mass. Institute of Technology; and David A. Wells, the famous economist...
Among the other graduates have been J. F. Carret, the present curator of the Boston Public Library; W. R. Ware, professor of architecture at Columbia, from the class of 1856; Alexander Agassiz, curator of the Harvard University Museum; William Watson, corresponding secretary of the American Academy of Science, from the class of '57; J. M. Crafts, professor of chemistry, Mass. Institute of Technology; David Smith, chief engineer U. S. N., from 1858; Daniel Cady Eaton, professor of botany, Yale University; and Geo. A. Osborne, professor of mathematics, Mass. Institute of Technology, from 1860; S. H. Scudder...
From later classes have graduated Regis Chavuenet '67, president of State School of Mines, Colorado: Professor William M. Davis '69; Charles H. Wing '70, professor of chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Isaac Sharpless '73, president of Haverford College; Howard Ayers '83, professor of biology, University of Missouri; William Patten '83, professor of biology and zoology at Dartmouth; Henry L. Smith '85, assistant professor of mining engineering, Harvard; Robert Payne Bigelow '87, librarian, and instructor in biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ralph S. Tarr '91, professor of geology at Cornell; and Thomas G. Lee '92, professor of histology at the University...
...William M. Salter of Philadelphia delivered the second and last of his lectures on Walt Whitman last evening in Sever 11. He devoted the lecture to the consideration of Whitman's philosophy. He said that the great fault to be found in Whitman is his lack of distinction between good and evil. Indeed Whitman affirmed that there was no such thing as evil in nature. Everything which appears evil is really good when looked at from the right standpoint. While we recognize immorality as something to be shunned, Whitman thought it should be commemorated. The lecturer said that some...