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| 1817 - 608 pages
...corporation, overseers, and government of that university, a new institution and professorship, in order to teach, by regular courses of academical and public...extension of the industry, prosperity, happiness, and well being of society.' Dr. Bigelow waa elected in October last the first Rumford professor; and his... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1818 - 474 pages
...and management of the Corporation, Overseers and Government of that University, a new Institution and Professorship, to teach by regular courses of academical...extension of the industry, prosperity, happiness, and well being of society. Count Rumford has left in his writings a memorial of great scientific industry,... | |
| Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 650 pages
...dollars per annum for ever," for the purpose of founding a new Institution and Profesgorship, in order to teach by regular courses of academical and public...extension of the industry, prosperity, happiness, and well being of Society." See an account of the Life and Writings of Count Rumibrd, by Professor Bigelow,... | |
| 1852 - 448 pages
...his daughter ; and in his will left an ample fund to Harvard University, to found a profassorship, "to teach, by regular courses of academical and public...extension of the industry, prosperity, happiness, and well being of society." This munificent bequest alone, in proof of his affectionate regard for the... | |
| Josiah Quincy - 1840 - 764 pages
...academical and public lectures, ac- CHAPTER companied with proper experiments, the utility of the xxv' physical and mathematical sciences for the improvement...extension of the industry, prosperity, happiness, and well being of society." The Corporation took immediate measures to obtain ii • * » i > • • i... | |
| Henry Colman - Agriculture - 1841 - 586 pages
...Rumford, in 1815, left a considerable property to Harvard University, for an institution which should teach <: by regular courses of academical and public...prosperity, happiness, and wellbeing of society." Two competent professors have in succession filled the chair of this department ; and 1 can only express... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...Overseers, and Government, of that University, a new Institution and Рго1'ез-ч>гship, in order to teach, by regular courses of academical and public...mathematical sciences, for the improvement of the useful arts nnd for the extension of the industry, prosperity, happiness, and well-being of society." In December,... | |
| Sidney Willard - College teachers - 1855 - 380 pages
...leetures, aeeompanied with proper experiments, the utility of the physieal and mathematieal seienees for the improvement of the useful arts, and for the...industry, prosperity, happiness, and well-being of Soeiety." Here is field enough to be- explored by the most industrious, during tho longest lifetime,... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...Corporation, Overseers, and Government of that University, a new Institution and Professorship, in order to teach, by regular courses of academical and public...prosperity, happiness, and well-being of society. In December, 1816, the Rumford Professorship was established in Harvard University, and Dr. Jacob Bigelow... | |
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