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See also:BARNARD, See also:FREDERICK See also:AUGUSTUS See also:PORTER (1809–1889) , See also:American scientist and educationalist, was See also:born in See also:Sheffield, See also:Massachusetts, on the 5th of May ISo9. In 1828 he graduated, second on the See also:honour See also:list, at Yale. He was then in turn a See also:tutor at Yale, a teacher (1831–1832) in the American See also:Asylum for the
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See also:Deaf and Dumb at See also:Hartford, See also:Connecticut, and a teacher (1832-1838) in the New See also:York See also:Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. From 1838 to 1848 he was See also:professor of See also:mathematics and natural See also:philosophy, and from 1848 to 1854 was professor of See also:chemistry and natural See also:history in the University of See also:Alabama, for two years, also, filling the See also:chair of See also:English literature. In 1854 he was ordained as See also:deacon in the See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church. In the same See also:year he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of See also:Mississippi, of which institution he was See also:chancellor from 1856 until the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War, when, his sympathies being with the See also:North, he resigned and went to See also:Washington. There for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he was in See also:charge of the See also:map and See also:chart See also:department of the See also:United States See also:Coast Survey. In 1864 he became the tenth See also:president of See also:Columbia See also:College (now Columbia University) in New York See also:City, which position he held until the year before his See also:death, his service thus being longer than that of any of his predecessors. During this See also:period the growth of the college was rapid; new departments were established; the elective See also:system was greatly extended; more adequate See also:provision was made for See also:graduate study and See also:original See also:research, and the enrolment was increased from about 150 to more than t000 students. Barnard strove to have educational privileges extended by the university td See also:women as well as to men, and Barnard College, for women (see COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY), established immediately after his death, was named in his honour. He died in New York City on the 27th of See also:April 1889. Barnard was a versatile See also:man, of See also:catholic training, a classical and English See also:scholar, a mathematician, a physicist, and a chemist, a See also:good public See also:speaker, and a vigorous but some-what prolix writer on various subjects, his See also:annual reports to the See also:Board of Trustees of Columbia being particularly valuable as discussions of educational problems. Besides being the editor-in-See also:chief, in 1872, of See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, he published a See also:Treatise on See also:Arithmetic (1830); an See also:Analytical See also:Grammar with Symbolic See also:Illustration (1836); Letters on Collegiate See also:Government (1855); and See also:Recent Progress in See also:Science (1869),
See See also:John See also:Fulton's See also:Memoirs of Frederick A. P. Barnard (New York, 1896).
End of Article: BARNARD, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS PORTER (1809–1889)
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