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Title: Circular. It is proposed to commence a system of education, in Rutgers' College, consistent with the improvements of the age, in the all important art of instruction. By the system intended to be pursued, the arts and sciences will be taught practically as well as theoretically.... The arts will be taught by practice, under skilful [sic] professors, the sciences as follows
Identifier(s): text:1409; APSimg6421; Goodman Number: 83; 973 C683 No. 428
Description: In addition to listing the new program of science instruction at the college, the circular also requests donations of natural history specimens for the college museum and funds to purchase scientific apparatus.; A section is cut out and missing from the circular.
Creator: Rutgers College
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Universities & colleges; Teaching; Sciences
Date: n.d.

Title: Public lectures. The faculty of arts announce the following courses of historical and scientific lectures, to be delivered in the College Hall. ...Philadelphia, November 23, 1846
Identifier(s): text:233; APSimg6454; Goodman Number: 141; 973 C683 No. 639
Description: Advertises a series of ten lectures on electricity to be given by Professor [John F.] Frazer. Signed in type by Geo[rge] Allen, secretary of the faculty of arts.
Creator: University of Pennsylvania. Department of Arts
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Electricity; Public speaking; Universities & colleges
Date: 1846

Title: A catalogue of officers and students in Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, January 1st, 1820
Identifier(s): text:292; APSimg6740; Goodman Number: 84; 973 C683 No. 34
Description: Lists Constantine S. Rafinesque as professor of botany and natural history, and teacher of modern languages, Charles Caldwell as professor of the institutes of medicine, teacher of materia medica, and dean of the medical faculty, Samuel Brown, professor of theory and practice of physic, Benjamin W. Dudley as professor of anatomy and surgery, William Richardson as professor of obstetrics, and diseases of women and children, James Blythe as professor of chemistry, and Robert H. Bishop as professor of natural philosophy and mathematics. Also includes list of medical students at the university.; Extra oversized.
Creator: Transylvania University
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Universities & colleges; Teachers; Students
Date: 1820

Title: University of Pennsylvania, (Faculty of arts.) October 25th, 1867. A very important change having been made in the system of instruction in the university...a circular was issued, on the 9th of September, by the faculty, containing a detailed statement of the new plan. ...Since the opening of the term, several slight...modifications having been adopted, it is thought best to issue...a full explanation of the new system
Identifier(s): text:1393; APSimg6423; Goodman Number: 87; 973 C683 No. 205
Description: Gives course of studies for the bachelor of arts degree including the following science-related subjects: mathematics, chemistry, physics, physical astronomy, and geography. Signed in type by Francis A. Parkman, secretary of the board of trustees.
Creator: University of Pennsylvania
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Universities & colleges; Science
Date: 1867

Title: College of New Jersey. Examination in chemistry. (Required.) Saturday, Dec. 19, 1885
Identifier(s): text:847; APSimg6712; Goodman Number: 134
Description: Nine questions ranging from "Which of all elements studied is most abundant?" to "What do chemists mean by saying carbon is a tetrad?" from Schank who began instruction of chemistry at the College of New Jersey in 1854, was promoted to the rank of professor in 1857, and became emeritus in 1892.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Schanck, John Stillwell, 1817-1898.
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Examinations; Universities & colleges
Date: 1885

Title: The course of examination and questions propounded in the several schools of the University of Virginia, at the late public examination in July, 1828
Identifier(s): text:36; APSimg6627; Goodman Number: 88
Description: Areas of science-related exam questions listed include: mathematics, under Professor [Charles] Bonnycastle, chemistry and materia medica, under Dr. [John P.] Emmet, and medicine under Drs. [Robley] Dunglison and [Thomas] Johnson. From the papers of Robert M. Patterson.; Item call number: 510 Pam. xp no. 6.
Creator: University of Virginia
Source: Robert Maskell Patterson Papers (510 Pam. xp);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Universities & colleges; Examinations
Date: 1828

Title: Entrance to freshman class. June 22, 1883. [Examination in] Grammar. Composition. Anabasis. Iliad.
Identifier(s): text:834; APSimg6723
Description: College entrance exam in the Greek language. From the papers of John K. Kane. Now housed among the Elisha Kent Kane papers.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Examinations; Language; Universities & colleges
Date: 1883

Title: Les chaires à l'Université Impériale de Vilna que l'assemblée générale de professeurs tenue le 18. julliet 1803 a declarées vacantes pour ètre publiées, sont...
Identifier(s): text:154; APSimg6422; Goodman Number: 85; 973 C683 No. 282
Description: Advertises vacancies in physics, natural history, agriculture, mathematics, clinical medicine, and veterinary medicine.
Creator: Université Impériale de Vilna
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Science; Universities & colleges
Date: 1803

Title: University of Virginia. Examination in natural philosophy. July 14th, 1829
Identifier(s): text:37; APSimg6638; Goodman Number: 183
Description: Twelve question examination contained in the papers of Robert M. Patterson, chemist and natural philosopher, who was professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1813-20), the University of Virginia (1828-1835), and later director of the United States Mint.; Item call number: 510 Pam. xp, no. 7.
Creator: Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854
Source: Robert Maskell Patterson Papers (510 Pam. xp);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Physics; Examinations; Education; Universities & colleges
Date: 1829

Title: We venture to state in order the following reasons for the subsidy on a large scale of research unencumbered with teaching
Identifier(s): text:829; APSimg6699; Goodman Number: 347
Description: Signed in type by the author with the signature of Charles Darwin appended to document.; Item call number: B H981.26.
Creator: Appleton, Charles Edward Cutts Birch, 1841-1879 Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920; Appleton, Charles Edward Cutts Birch, 1841-1879 Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920
Source: Thomas Henry Huxley Papers (Mss.B.H981); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.H981-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Miscellaneous; Broadside Subdivision: ; Universities & colleges; Research; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Teaching
Date: ca. 1875

Title: Syllabus of the lectures of Thomas Cooper, Esq. M.D. as professor of geology and mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania
Identifier(s): text:600; APSimg6608; Goodman Number: 143
Description: Cooper, important as a dessiminator of scientific information and promoter of science in America, was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1819 and is best known for the American editions he prepared for several English textbooks and his description of Joseph Priestley's scientific work (see Goodman #128).
Creator: Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Geology; Minerals; Public speaking; Universities & colleges
Date: ca. 1815-1819

Title: Entrance to freshman class. June 22, 1883. [Examination in] Euclid [and]...arithmetic
Identifier(s): text:844; APSimg6706; Goodman Number: 156
Description: Includes five questions in each section. From the papers of John K. Kane. Now housed among the Elisha Kent Kane papers.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Examinations; Universities & colleges; Geometry; Mathematics
Date: 1883

Title: The classes for the different branches of education will be opened, the ensuing session, as follows.... Edinburgh College, September 12, 1810
Identifier(s): text:705; APSimg6579; Goodman Number: 86
Description: Among others, this broadside lists classes, scheduled meeting times, and instructors in medicine and botany. Signed in type by Andrew Duncan, junior secretary of the college.
Creator: University of Edinburgh
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Universities & colleges; Teaching; Sciences
Date: 1810

Title: Jubilee of the Right Honorable Professor Lord Kelvin
Identifier(s): text:594; APSimg6752; Goodman Number: 185
Description: Invitation sent to the secretary of the "Philosophical Society, Philadelphia." Signed in type by John Caird, principal and vice-chancellor of the University, and James Bell, Lord Provost of Glasgow.; Oversized.
Creator: University of Glasgow
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907; Anniversaries; Universities & colleges
Date: 1896