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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Scientific Cambridge. (search)
be called artist mechanicians. They have built the largest and best telescopes in the world, and even Russia has been a suitor at the door of their workshop. Their labors in connection with astronomical research illustrate the general truth that the progress of the physical sciences depends as much upon mechanical skill as upon mathematical knowledge. The subject of natural philosophy, or as it is now called physics, has always been closely allied to astronomy, and for fifty years Professor Lovering gave lectures on both of these sciences. He was a striking figure in the university, and a marked example of the school of college professors which once flourished in all American colleges,—professors whose elaborate lectures were characterized 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 t
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The Avon home. (search)
the generosity of a resident of Cambridge in accordance with a long-cherished plan. It was opened on May 30, 1874, in a house on Avon Place near Linnaean Street, which, with its furniture and what was expected to be an ample endowment, was transferred to the corporation of the Avon Place trustees in November of that year. The original board of trustees consisted of Mrs. Henry W. Paine, president; Rev. D. O. Mears, treasurer; Miss Irene F. Sanger, clerk; and Dr. Andrew P. Peabody, Mrs. Joseph Lovering, Mrs. W. T. Richardson, Mrs. Henry Thayer, Mrs. J. M. Tyler, and Mrs. B. F. Wyeth. Dr. Peabody succeeded Mrs. Paine as president, and at the time of his death in 1893 was the last one of the original trustees; Mr. William Taggard Piper was chosen to succeed Dr. Peabody. Mrs. John Bartlett and Miss Maria Murdock respectively followed Miss Sanger as clerk, and Mrs. J. M. Tyler and Miss Mary A. Ellis succeeded Mr. Mears as treasurer. Four trustees were added in November, 1875, and in Ja
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), An Old-time Society. (search)
, Stephen Higginson, Esq., Dr. F. J. Higginson, Rev. Thomas W. Coit, Jonas Wyeth, Jr., John G. Palfrey, William Newell, Nehemiah Adams, R. H. Dana, Ebenezer Francis, Jr., Andrews Norton, Alexander H. Ramsay, Richard M. Hodges, William Saunders, J. B. Dana, C. C. Little, Simon Greenleaf, J. E. Worcester, John A. Albro, C. C. Felton, Charles Beck, Morrill Wyman, James Walker, E. S. Dixwell, Converse Francis, William T. Richardson, H. W. Longfellow, Edward Everett, Asa Gray, Francis Bowen, Joseph Lovering, John Ware, John Holmes, Estes Howe, William Greenough, Robert Carter, E. N. Horsford, Charles E. Norton. Dr. Holmes remained president until his death in 1837, when Joseph Story was put in his place, Dr. Ware still remaining vice-president. Levi Hedge (Ll. D.) was treasurer until 1831, when, on account of ill-health and expected absence from town, he asked to be relieved from the cares of office, and a special meeting was called to choose his successor. Dea. William Brown was th
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
ion, 30; erects county buildings at East Cambridge, 30. Lee, Joseph, appointed mandamus councilor, 23; determines not to serve, 28. Lexington, formerly Cambridge Farms, 9; church formed at, 23. Library. See Public Library. Life in Cambridge Town, 35-42. Literary Life in Cambridge, 67-71. Little Cambridge, 9. See Third Parish and Brighton. Longfellow, H. W., 69, 70. Longfellow Garden, the, 69. Longfellow Memorial Association, property exempt from taxation, 320. Lovering, Professor, 76. Lowell, J. R., 35, 37; his playful plaint, 60, 69; what he would rather see, 70; a singer of good politics, 90; his description of Fresh Pond meadows, 125. Lowell, high school in, 192. Lowlands, reclamation of, 106, 107, 109, 111, 127. Lynn becomes a city, 54. Mandamus councilors, 23. Manson, Elizabeth, kindergarten, 217. Manual Training School for Boys, its building, 85, 86, 224, 225; object of its founders, 224; opening of the school, 225; supervising