Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . duating in 1892 withthe degree of Bachelor of .Arts, cuin laude andspecial honors in mathematics and the mathematicalsciences. The succeeding year he was a post- 3^8 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS graduate student in astronomy at Princeton, wasUniversity Fellow at Columbia, 1893-1894, andreappointed to the same Fellowship for anotheryear; was made a Master of Arts in 1894, and aDoctor of Philosophy in 1895. While a st
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . duating in 1892 withthe degree of Bachelor of .Arts, cuin laude andspecial honors in mathematics and the mathematicalsciences. The succeeding year he was a post- 3^8 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS graduate student in astronomy at Princeton, wasUniversity Fellow at Columbia, 1893-1894, andreappointed to the same Fellowship for anotheryear; was made a Master of Arts in 1894, and aDoctor of Philosophy in 1895. While a student atPrinceton he accompanied, as Assistant Astronomer,the scientific expedition to the West Coast ofAfrica, sent out by the United States Governmentin 18S9-1890. In 1894 he became an Assistantin the Summer School of Practical Astronomy andGeodesy at Columbia, and was given charge of thatcourse from 1895 to 1897; held the Tutorship in the author of Seven Months Cruise in a Man-of-War, and a Glossary to Homers Iliad. May 24,1894 he was united in marriage with Coreita Reg-ister Hoffecker, whose name is linked with his asco-laborator in several of his technical HERMAN S. DAVIS Astronomy at Columbia from 1895 to 1S99; andwas Lecturer on that subject for the New York CityBoard of Education for three years. Some timesince he decided to relinquish educational work fora time in order to devote his entire attention to anew reduction of Piazzis Star Observations, inwhich he is having the co-operation of prominentastronomers and mathematicians of both Americaand Europe and the financial aid of liberal patronsof astronomy. Dr. Davis was elected a life-memberof the Astronomische Gesellschaft, of Germany, in1895, and in 1899 became a charter member ofthe new Astronomical and Astrophysical Society ofAmerica. Besides several volumes of observationsand numerous articles relative to his specialty, he is DUFFIELD, George Princeton 1752 — Yale in Lancaster
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