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Professor William Cook now devotes a portion of the hour for German VI. to practice in German conversation...
...comparison of the catalogue with the fundamental systems of Anwers, Safford, Boss and Newcomb. This comparison, according to Mr. Downing, shows the excellence of the Harvard College Observatory star places, and goes far to justify the great relative weight which is assigned to them by American and German astronomers when combining them with places of stars determined at other observatories. The fundamental systems referred to comprise catalogues of the principal stars which have been independently formed, for the most part from complete discussions of all the data available previous to the year 1872, and are therefore well adapted to test...
Prof. Dyer has in the hands of the publishers, Ginn & Heath, his edition of "Cron's Introduction to Plato's Apology." The book, which covers upwards of seventy pages, will contain a translation from Cron's German edition and numerous additions by the American editor. The work is expected to be out in a few weeks, in time for use by the freshmen. This is the second of the series edited by Professors White of Harvard and Packard of Yale - the first being an edition of the first book of "The Odyssey," which has not as yet been given...
...marks in German VI. are out. Prof. Cook states that the results of the examination were the best he has seen for years...
Richard Wagner, the eminent German composer, is dead in Venice, at the age of seventy years...