Word: largerly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...perhaps the best managed institution in Cambridge, and most graduates and undergraduates feel a particular pride and interest in it. In spite of the absence of Mr. Justin Winsor the work performed at the library last year showed the usual advance in amount and efficiency. The accessions were larger than in any year before except in 1888; the number of users of books was larger than last year by 192. But the time is very near at hand when it will be impossible for the library, without a material increase of working capital, to perform its functions as successfully...
...Divinity School, with a larger income, has had two successive annual deficits. Additional endowment is needed...
...here that all their principal instruments are located. A railroad leads from this city up into the Andes, six thousand feet higher, so that when special observations are essential, recourse is had to the latter place and hither most of the instruments may be conveyed, although the larger telescope is never moved from Arequipa. Investigations made here are, conducted with regard-first to the meteorology of the globe, with particular reference to cloudiness and other phenomena affecting the choice of astronomical stations; secondly, to to the fundamental principles of astronomical photography; thirdly, to the great nebulous region comprising a large...
When Professor Cooke was appointed Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy, he took charge of the small mineralogical collection which the college then possessed. As the interest in elective studies grew, it became evident that a larger collection of minerals would be admirable training for a man's powers of observation. This started Professor Cook on his collecting, and he has carried out this great work with the assistance of the late Mr. Cogswell and other friends. Gifts by Mr. Theodore Lyman have enabled Professor Cook to make several purchases. At different times he has raised over $20.000 by subscription...
Boston University offers instruction in a larger number of languages than any other institution in America...