Word: shaler
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...Geological Conference this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Mineralogical Lecture Room of the University Museum, addresses will be made by two speakers. Mr. A. W. Pinger will talk on "Surface and Underground Methods on the Marquette Range", and Professor C. Palache will discuss "Plans of the Shaler Memorial Expedition to South Africa". All members of the University are invited...
...engaged in research work for the East Butte Mining Company will be at the University and will take charge of several courses previously offered by Professor R. A. Daly '93, including "Introduction to Geology" and "Principles of Sedimentation". Professor Daly will be away with Professor Carles Palsche on the Shaler Memorial Expedition to South Africa; the latter will be unable to give his course on Non-Metallic Mineral Deposits on his courses on Mineralogy...
...Shaler House...
...room hang the portraits of James Russell Lowell, former professor of Belles Lettres and former Overseer of the University; Professor Sophocles, the celebrated and eccentric teacher of Greek; William Watson Goodwin, the scholar; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, who was for many years a professor at the University; Dean Shaler; Benjamin Pierce, the great mathematician; and others whose memory the University honors...
Indisputably Barrett Wendell belonged to the great group of Harvard professors which included Norton, Child Shaler, Royce and William James; but almost as indisputably he stood apart from it--was never really of it. To the fetich of German "scientific" scholarship, the true divinity of which no one then doubted, he paid scant homage. His mind worked by flashes--flashes of wit, of iconoclastic paradox, of profound intelligence and of almost magical divination; but still, as it seemed to academic Cambridge, it worked uncanonically, irresponsibly. His knowledge was wide and luminous; on most of the subjects of which he wrote...