Word: professors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...REPORTER of the Crimson started a day or two ago to interview our new Professor of Chinese. That dignitary was found at his house, in the bosom of his family; and upon learning the object of the reporter's visit, was very cordial in his tone and manners. He awoke his interpreter, who was just finishing a delightful opium reverie, and opened a long and interesting conversation, of which the following is a summary...
...PROFESSOR JOHN FISKE began his course of lectures on "America's Place in History," at the University College, London, June...
...visit the Chapel, although there may be no service going on, and although you may have a few other opportunities of viewing its interior (decorated by Mr. MacPherson). A few moments' meditation there will calm, soothe, and prepare you for the ordeal which must immediately follow. If the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals has not left the key, where he generally keeps it, under the mat, you may obtain it from the Professor of Bell-ringing; or, if you choose, you may climb in through the window, - an easy and pleasant way. When strengthened by your devotions, you can next...
...enough to have a medical man of the ordinary type for Professor of Hygiene. Most doctors have been bred in contact with disease, and have no true sympathy for health, and they are usually cramped by the tenets of their own school of therapeutic surmises. Nor is it enough to put over the Gymnasium a man who knows nothing of anatomy and physiology, however good a general gymnast he may be. Such a man may be best fitted to teach how to execute a certain exercise, but never to prescribe what exercise each man needs. A simple teacher of gymnastics...
Then there should be a superintendent of the Gymnasium, directly subject to the Professor of Hygiene. He should be a good man and an accomplished gymnast, to teach the proper way of executing the prescribed exercises, see that no one undertakes rash feats, and with tact and presence of mind enough to apply immediate remedies in case of accident. He should be competent to teach sparring, fencing, and wrestling, in classes as well as by private lessons, and be an intelligent gentleman, able and ready to carry out the directions of his superior officer, and one with whom the students...