. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. ication, Scopeand Plan of the School of Industrial Science, thatthe plan of separate schools of mathematics, physics,etc., had been abandoned, and that the Europeanidea had been adopted, of giving a full course ofscientific studies and practical exercises to suchstudents as seek to qualify themselves for the pro-fessions of the civil, mining, and mechanical en-gineer, the architect and chemist. Dr. Watson became L
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. ication, Scopeand Plan of the School of Industrial Science, thatthe plan of separate schools of mathematics, physics,etc., had been abandoned, and that the Europeanidea had been adopted, of giving a full course ofscientific studies and practical exercises to suchstudents as seek to qualify themselves for the pro-fessions of the civil, mining, and mechanical en-gineer, the architect and chemist. Dr. Watson became Lniversity Lecturer at Harvard, 1863-1S64, and in his lectures he called attention to acontroversy between Professors Sylvester and Merri-field, two eminent mathematicians, both membersof the Royal Society, and showed that the resultsobtained by one, were, by mathematical transforma-tion, identical with those of the other. ProfessorBenjamin Peirce, who was present, expressed greatpleasure at this result, and soon after. Dr. Watsonwas elected fellow of the American Academy ofxArts and Sciences. The next year, on the receiptof a gift to the Scientific School, the Dean offered an. WM. WATSON Assistant Professorship in the school to Dr. Watson,but the preliminary steps toward beginning theinstruction in the Institute of Technology had beentaken, and in 1865 he was made Professor of Me-chanical Engineering and Descriptive Geometry atthat school, occupying this chair until 1873. WhileProfessor, he made two visits to Europe, collectingmodels and apparatus for instruction, and from timeto time he read scientific papers before the Societyof Arts. He was appointed United States Commis-sioner to the Worlds Fair at Vienna in 1873, sen-edon the International Jury at the Paris Flxposition of1878, and in that year was made honorary Presidentof the Paris Congress of Architects, and honorary\ice-President of the Congress of Hvgiene. He 3«4 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS also held the office of hon
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