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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)
Scientific Cambridge. Ohn Trowbridge, S. D., Rumford Professor in Harvard College, and director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The London Nature, in a review of Dr. George Birkbeck Hill's interesting book, entitled Harvard College by an Oxonian, noted the fact that the author had not expatiated upon the remarkable lab, quasi stellae in perpetuas aeternitates. editor's note.—The Editor cannot permit the above chapter to conclude without a word in regard to its author. Professor Trowbridge is a prominent figure among the leaders of physical research in this country. He has been active in many lines of original investigation during the past twpparatus and a lectureship to a working laboratory that may well invite comparison with the leading laboratories of the world as to the opportunities offered for advanced research, particularly in the field to which Professor Trowbridge has of late given special attention,—electrical waves and the electro-magnetic theory of li
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Private schools in Cambridge. (search)
particularly to the need of each individual pupil. Professor Agassiz's School. The mind reverts at once, when the subject of private schools is mentioned in Cambridge, to that notable one connected with the name of the great Agassiz, which was opened in his residence in 1855 and closed in 1863, during a portion of those years when the professor was stimulating scientific study in a way that no other single master has ever stimulated it in America. See Scientific Cambridge, by Professor Trowbridge, p. 74.— editor. It is interesting to read of the enthusiasm with which the great teacher entered upon the labor of this school. It was in the winter of 1855, when his physical energy had been exhausted by work, in order to add to the scant income of his college professorship, that it occurred to his wife and two elder children, now of an age to assist her in such a scheme, that a school for young ladies might be established in the upper part of the new and larger house which Harvard
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)
n and counter-petition, 16; the precinct incorporated, 16; a church founded 16; incorporated as the town of Brighton, 16. See Brighton. Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford), Toll bridges, 29. Tory Row, 28. Town, body of, 16. Town boys and Wells boys, 38. Town church. See First Parish. Town-house, location, 31. Town, traces of English method of forming, in Cambridge, 4. Travel between Boston and Cambridge, 400. Treadwell, Prof. Daniel, 73. Treasurer, City, 402. Trowbridge, Prof. John, 77. Trustees of Cambridge Public Library, 403. Uniform Rank Garnett Division, K. of P., 292. Union Methodist Episcopal Church, 241. Union Railway Company, incorporated, 396; Gardiner G. Hubbard and his associates, 396;; first meeting of stockholders. 396, 397; officers elected, 397; efforts to procure subscriptions, 397; cars procured, 397; a successful run, 397; fares, 398; hack to call for passengers, 308; removal of snow from Boston streets, 398; passes, 398, 3