Records of the Lawrence Scientific School, 1846-1907 (inclusive).

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Records of the Lawrence Scientific School, 1846-1907 (inclusive).

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Includes minutes of faculty meetings (after 1890, of the Administrative Board), and official correspondence of the Dean (N.S. Shaler) and Secretary, including some correspondence relating to the Summer School; report of Dean Eben N. Horsford; records of the Committee on Studies; admissions lists; library catalogs and record of books charged out; and student records. Materials relating to students include absences; degrees with honors; grade reports; lists of studies; withdrawal records; and lists of colleges and preparatory schools which Lawrence students came from. Also correspondence andother papers relating to the building of Pierce Hall. For more detailedinformation, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

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Harvard University. Summer School of Arts and Sciences and of Education

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Harvard University

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Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906

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Shaler (Harvard, S.B., 1862) taught paleontology and geology at Harvard and was Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School. From the description of Papers of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, 1872-1914 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972881 Prominent geologist and scholar, served with the Kentucky Geological Survey, and as a professor at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University. From the description of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler : paper...

Harvard University. Corporation. Committee on Studies.

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Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893

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Horsford (Harvard, A.B., 1847) taught chemistry at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Eben Norton Horsford, ca. 1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972793 Engineer, college professor and industrial chemist; president of Wellesley. From the description of E. N. Horsford letter to a Miss Reid [manuscript], 1884 February 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 713898870 David Zeisberger served as a Moravian minister. ...

Lawrence Scientific School

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The Lawrence Scientific School was established in 1847. In 1890, it became a unit of the newly-established Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In 1906, the Lawrence Scientific School was replaced by the Graduate School of Applied Science. From the description of Records of the Lawrence Scientific School, 1846-1907 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972676 Founded in 1886, the Lawrence Scientific School Association aimed to advance the cause of education in sc...