Word: shaler
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announcement contains for the first time a statement of the terms of the Shaler Memorial Fund Endowment, given by alumni of the University in 1907, in memory of the long service of Professor Nathaniel Southgate Shaler '62, now amounting to more than $30,000. This fund is devoted to the support of original research...
...deeply her losses in a division of instruction that drew students even from abroad--as the brilliant editor of the Hibbert Journal, L. P. Jacks. Many of the departments even in a university like Harvard are departments whose strength resides chiefly in one man. When an Agassiz or a Shaler dies or retires, a weakening of the reputation of the institution in his branch is taken as a matter of course. But when a department contains a small galaxy of stars whose instruction continues over extended periods, it is equally natural to look for the rearing of brilliant disciples...
...university in this country. It began in a summer course in botany, organized in 1871 by Professor Asa Gray, which was soon followed by courses in biology, chemistry, and geology. The gradual enlargement of these courses into the Summer School of Arts and Sciences was the work of Professor Shaler. The summer school was primarily established in order to provide University instruction for teachers, but has come also to be used as a means to finish college work in three years and to be of assistance to men entering the University in the fall in passing admission examinations...
...Geological conference "A Shaler Memorial Study of Coral Reefs." Illustrated. Professor W. M. Davis, Geological Lecture Room, University Museum...
After visiting New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the New Hebrides during June and July in connection with his Shaler Memorial Study of Coral Reefs in the South Pacific, Professor W. M. Davis attended during August the Australian meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. He was given the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Melbourne. At Sydney he spoke before the Section of Geography on the "Coast of New Caledonia" and before the Section of Geology on "A New Evidence for Darwin's Theory of Coral Reefs...