See also:FREDERICK See also:AUGUSTUS See also:PORTER See also:BARNARD (1809–1889)
, See also:American scientist and educationalist, was See also:born in See also:Sheffield, See also:Massachusetts, on the 5th of May ISo9
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In 1828 he graduated, second on the See also:honour See also:list, at Yale
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He was then in turn a See also:tutor at Yale, a teacher (1831–1832) in the American See also:Asylum for the
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See also:Deaf and Dumb at See also:Hartford, See also:Connecticut, and a teacher (1832-1838) in the New See also:York See also:Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
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From 1838 to 1848 he was See also:professor of See also:mathematics and natural See also:philosophy, and from 1848 to 1854 was professor of See also:chemistry and natural See also:history in the University of See also:Alabama, for two years, also, filling the See also:chair of See also:English literature
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In 1854 he was ordained as See also:deacon in the See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church
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In the same See also:year he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of See also:Mississippi, of which institution he was See also:chancellor from 1856 until the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War, when, his sympathies being with the See also:North, he resigned and went to See also:Washington
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There for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he was in See also:charge of the See also:map and See also:chart See also:department of the See also:United States See also:Coast Survey
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In 1864 he became the tenth See also:president of See also:Columbia See also:College (now Columbia University) in New York See also:City, which position he held until the year before his See also:death, his service thus being longer than that of any of his predecessors
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During this See also:period the growth of the college was rapid; new departments were established; the elective See also:system was greatly extended; more adequate See also:provision was made for See also:graduate study and See also:original See also:research, and the enrolment was increased from about 150 to more than t000 students
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See also:Barnard strove to have educational privileges extended by the university td See also:women as well as to men, and Barnard College, for women (see COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY), established immediately after his death, was named in his honour
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He died in New York City on the 27th of See also:April 1889
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Barnard was a versatile See also:man, of See also:catholic training, a classical and English See also:scholar, a mathematician, a physicist, and a chemist, a See also:good public See also:speaker, and a vigorous but some-what prolix writer on various subjects, his See also:annual reports to the See also:Board of Trustees of Columbia being particularly valuable as discussions of educational problems
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Besides being the editor-in-See also:chief, in 1872, of See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, he published a See also:Treatise on See also:Arithmetic (1830); an See also:Analytical See also:Grammar with Symbolic See also:Illustration (1836); Letters on Collegiate See also:Government (1855); and See also:Recent Progress in See also:Science (1869),
See See also:John See also:Fulton's See also:Memoirs of See also:Frederick A
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Barnard (New York, 1896)
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