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Robert Fulton, although he neither invented nor first applied the principles of the steamboat, has been hailed as its inventor simply because he had the breadth of imagination and the enthusiasm to embody the impractical ideas of his predecessors in a useful form. And he deserves the credit he is given; for, according to Lord Telford, who said, "Engineering is the art of directing the great sources and powers of nature for the use and convenience of man," he was a true civil engineer...
...colors unseen by duller eyes. He was the friend and advocate of the students in his charge rather than a prosecuting officer of the University, and it was always more his wish to get young fellows out of scrapes than to punish them for getting in. He was the inventor and developer of the three double-named departments that are embraced in our Division of Geology, and nearly all the teachers of these departments are his former pupils or the pupils of his pupils; and he was more instrumental than any other man in rehabilitating the Scientific School, of which...
There will be a meeting of the Camera Club in the Assembly Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. W. C. South, inventor of the Solgram method of color photography, will lecture and will give a demonstration of his process...
Edward Charles Pickering '65, "Astronomical inventor and discoverer...
Honorary Masters of Arts--John Himes Arnold, librarian of the Law School since 1872; Herbert Langford Warren, Professor of architecture at Harvard University; Francis Blake, successful inventor and promoter of science; Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the foremost expert in applied electricity of this country; Walter Reed, graduate of medicine of the University of Virginia, the army surgeon who planned in Cuba the experiments which have given control of yellow fever...