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Milman, Henry Hart

(Encyclopedia)Milman, Henry Hart, 1791–1868, English clergyman, poet, and historian, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, from 1849. He was the author of several dramatic poems as well as some important historic...

Whipple, George Hoyt

(Encyclopedia)Whipple, George Hoyt, 1878–1976, American pathologist, b. Ashland, N.H., M.D. Johns Hopkins, 1905. He taught at Johns Hopkins (1909–14) and at the Univ. of California (1914–21) and was professor...

Bowne, Borden Parker

(Encyclopedia)Bowne, Borden Parker boun [key], 1847–1910, American philosopher, b. Monmouth co., N.J. In 1876 he became head of the department of philosophy at Boston Univ. and later served as dean of the graduat...

Black, Greene Vardiman

(Encyclopedia)Black, Greene Vardiman, 1836–1915, American dentist, b. Scott co., Ill. Professor at Chicago College of Dental Surgery (now part of Loyola Univ.) from 1883 to 1889 and professor (from 1891) and dean...

Raoult, François Marie

(Encyclopedia)Raoult, François Marie fräNswäˈ märēˈ räo͞olzˈ [key], 1830–1901, French physicist and chemist. He was professor (from 1870) and dean (from 1889) of the faculty of sciences at the Univ. of ...

Ernle, Rowland Edmund Prothero, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Ernle, Rowland Edmund Prothero, 1st Baron prŏᵺˈərō, ûrnˈlē [key], 1851–1937, British agriculturist, editor, and writer. He edited the Quarterly Review (1894–99) and was president of the B...

Hodges, George

(Encyclopedia)Hodges, George, 1856–1919, American Episcopal clergyman, b. Rome, N.Y. While at Calvary Church, Pittsburgh (1881–94), he attracted attention by the quality of his preaching. He was an early expone...

Martins Ferry

(Encyclopedia)Martins Ferry, city (1990 pop. 7,990), Belmont co., E Ohio, on the Ohio River opposite Wheeling, W.Va.; settled 1780, inc. as a city 1885. It was formerly an industrial coal-mining and steel-manufactu...

Bok, Derek Curtis

(Encyclopedia)Bok, Derek Curtis, 1930–, American educator and university president, b. Bryn Mawr, Pa., grad. Stanford (B.A., 1951) and Harvard (LL.B., 1954). A professor of law at Harvard from 1958, he served as ...

Sovern, Michael Ira

(Encyclopedia)Sovern, Michael Ira, 1931–2020, American lawyer and educator, president of Columbia Univ. (1980–93), b. New York City. He graduated from the Columbia Univ. Law School in 1955 and after 1957 he was...