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FREDERICK AUGUSTUS PORTER BARNARD (1809–1889)  ,
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American scientist and educationalist, was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, on the 5th of May ISo9 . In 1828 he graduated, second on the honour list, at Yale . He was then in turn a tutor at Yale, a teacher (1831–1832) in the American Asylum for the 5
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Deaf and Dumb at
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Hartford,
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Connecticut, and a teacher (1832-1838) in the New York Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb . From 1838 to 1848 he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, and from 1848 to 1854 was professor of chemistry and natural
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history in the University of
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Alabama, for two years, also, filling the chair of
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English literature . In 1854 he was ordained as deacon in the
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Protestant Episcopal Church . In the same
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year he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of
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Mississippi, of which institution he was chancellor from 1856 until the outbreak of the
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Civil War, when, his sympathies being with the North, he resigned and went to Washington . There for some time he was in charge of the map and chart department of the
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United States Coast Survey . In 1864 he became the tenth president of
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Columbia College (now Columbia University) in New York City, which position he held until the year before his
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death, his service thus being longer than that of any of his predecessors . During this period the growth of the college was rapid; new departments were established; the elective
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system was greatly extended; more adequate provision was made for graduate study and
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original research, and the enrolment was increased from about 150 to more than t000 students . Barnard strove to have educational privileges extended by the university td
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women as well as to men, and Barnard College, for women (see COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY), established immediately after his death, was named in his honour . He died in New York City on the 27th of
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April 1889 . Barnard was a versatile man, of catholic training, a classical and English scholar, a mathematician, a physicist, and a chemist, a good public
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speaker, and a vigorous but some-what prolix writer on various subjects, his
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annual reports to the Board of Trustees of Columbia being particularly valuable as discussions of educational problems .

Besides being the editor-in-

chief, in 1872, of Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, he published a
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Treatise on Arithmetic (1830); an
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Analytical Grammar with Symbolic
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Illustration (1836); Letters on Collegiate Government (1855); and
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Recent Progress in Science (1869), See John Fulton's
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Memoirs of Frederick A . P . Barnard (New York, 1896) .

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