Word: adjunct
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...HERALD begins the third year of its existence in the continued belief that a college daily is a necessary adjunct to a university of the size of Harvard, and that the college students are willing to support such a paper to the best of their ability. To the best of our knowledge we may state that no college daily at Harvard has as yet succeeded in clearing expenses at the end of any year's publication. From this fact we leave the college to draw its own inferences as to the kind and degree of support which it has given...
...college than any other in the country. The students who carried off the honors and reflected the greatest credit on the college were not the docile. pride-of-the-Sunday-school boys, but those who had some "get-up" about them. The irresponsible rich boy was not a desirable adjunct to the college-roll. Harvard was the one college in America which aimed at improving and allowing the most scope to the character of the student. The aim was to foster the desire for learning. In the old country a man might almost be said to know before...
...hereafter a superintendent shall be appointed for the United States Naval Observatory at Washington he shall be a professional astronomer of experience, and that the new observatory building, soon to be erected, shall be planned and built by a commission of scientific men. Hitherto the observatory has been an adjunct of the naval department...