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d by literary skill and dominated by philosophy. This school is now fast passing away and giving place to one composed of men who are devoted to laboratory teaching. The professors of chemistry also, before 1840, taught mainly by lectures and text-books, and the university owes much to the labors of Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke, who developed the laboratory teaching of chemistry in Harvard College. The Scientific School, too, has done much for chemical science. It was there that Dr. Wolcott Gibbs trained a remarkable band of investigators who are now teaching their science in many universities. It will be seen from this rapid and incomplete enumeration of the scientific men who have given our city a reputation far beyond local limits, that the remarkable fountain of inspiration which shot up like a great geyser in the fifties has been followed by a stream of patient investigation in well-equipped laboratories. Where there was one investigator in 1850, there are now hundreds
s, 127. Fresh Pond, 113, 114, 116, 117. Fresh Pond Park, 117, 125. Friendship Lodge of Odd Fellows, 286. Frozen Truth, 91, 94. Gage, General, seizes powder in Charlestown, 23, 48; and fieldpieces in Cambridge, 23, 48. Gallows Lot, executions on, 5, 12. Gambrel-Roofed House, The, 43-46. Gardner, Col. Thomas, killed at Bunker Hill, 26. General Court, places of assembling, 2; how formed, 5; adjourned from Boston to Cambridge, 20; proposes to frame a constitution, 27. Gibbs, Dr. Wolcott, 77. Gilman, Arthur, his plan for the collegiate instruction of women, 177,178; Regent of Radcliffe College, 174; opens the Cambridge School for Girls, 214; secretary of the Humane Society, 270. Girls, excluded from early schools, 189, 190. God's Acre, 5, 16, 134. Goffe, Edward, and President Dunster, build the first schoolhouse, 188. Goffe, William, 11. Gookin, Rev. Nathaniel, 236. Government, municipal, on what it depends, 78; elimination of partisanship i