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Annual Report of the President of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Annual Report of the President of the Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Maryland Author:Johns Hopkins University General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you... more » can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The chair of Mathematics has been filled by the appointment of Professor Frank Morley, lately Professor of Mathematics in Haverford College, Pa. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, England, where he has received the degrees of A. B. (in 1883), A. M. (in 1886), and Doctor of Science (in 1898). He came to this country in 1887, and has won distinction not only as a teacher, but also as a writer upon mathematical subjects. He entered at once upon the duties of his professorship in Baltimore, and he assumes, by request of the University, the editorial direction of the American Journal of Mathematics, successively held the posts of Fellow, Demonstrator, Associate, and Associate Professor. Dr. Thomas 8. Baker, Associate in German, has resigned this position to become Professor of Modern Languages in the Tome Institute, Port Deposit. He retains, however, connection with the University as a lecturer in German literature. Dr. Jesse W. Lazear, for three years past an Assistant in Clinical Microscopy in the Medical School, and at one time a resident physician in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, died of yellow fever in Havana, on the twenty-fifth of September, 1900. Dr. Lazear graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1889, and then pursued medical studies in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Last spring he received an appointment as Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army and was ordered to Cuba for duty in Havana, and he then resigned his position in our Medical School. He was a man of high personal character and unusual promise. His life was sacrifi...« less