Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scientist at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., noted the shock of the Flood Rock explosion just one minute after the appointed time and just fifteen minutes before the explosion occurred. - Journal...
...claim that until a student attains the English or German standard, a classical education should be prescribed for him. In view of this claim the fact acquires interest that there is a considerable movement in England for making the classics elective in the preparatory schools. Professor Huxley, the noted scientist, and, moreover, one of the governing body of Eton, has said, palpably referring to Latin and Greek, that the subjects which are now put down in the school curriculum as essentials, are, in fact, luxuries. And no less an authority than the London Athenaeum declares that compulsory Greek...
...show, and which he believed were concealed in some of the students' rooms. He was summarily ejected by the college police, as the college law forbids strangers the privileges of the buildings unless accompanied by students or having obtained permission from the same. After some altercation, the unfortunate scientist went to his hotel, packed his trunk, and left town...
...Nation, in announcing the fact that Sir William Thomson, the distinguished English scientist, will deliver a course of lectures at Johns Hopkins next fall, states that arrangements will be made by which students from other colleges may attend the course...
Charles William Simmons, the famous scientist and electrician, died on Monday, in London, of rupture of the heart...