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...observations have been very numerous. The comets have been one of the special features. The "standard time" has been introduced and some new instruments have been invented to aid in astronomical research. Another book of Obervatory Annals and many small treatises have been published. These cover the work of the whole year and are of much value in that branch of science to which they pertain...
...culture, separating itself gradually from the ancient civilization out of which it grew. To day this modern society has reached its maturity. To Erasmus the ancients were models of living; even Goethe considered the Greeks as unattainable ideals of beauty and greatness. For us they are the objects of research and criticism. It would be absurd to educate our boys as if they belonged to the age of the humanists. What we want above all is to make them understand their own world, the people of which they are a part, the life of nature about them, the men among...
...contained 2,000 volumes of valuable works relating to classical study. All the leading archaeological journals are received at the school and the advantages of the library are thrown open to the use of the English and American residents. The various departments of the school are engaged in archaeological research, and the present management has insured flourishing results...
...university. A description of the new Jefferson Physical Laboratory and the advantages which it offers is the most noticeable addition to the new volume. Besides this, there is the new Channcy Wright prize for a mathematical thesis, and a description of the valuable Boylston prizes for medical research. The Lee prize-reading having been discontinued, all mention of them ceases with 1883-84. These few additions and changes, together with the new names and rank of the students are the only points which make the new catalogue different from its immediate predecessor. And now that a suitable binding has been...
...insufficiency of the present arrangements to meet the demand for reference books, by its purpose of issuing a pamphlet with condensed notes of the important facts to be learned. This is a makeshift that deprives the student of the very great beneficiary which is to be derived from individual research...