Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account of its importance and a slight change made since yesterday, we are requested to reprint this notice...
...Thomas William Backhouse of Sunderland, England, has sent L25 to the fund for the Harvard observatory, "on account," he says, "of the interesting work done there...
Prof. Tittle, a prominent German naturalist, has paid the Agassiz Museum a great compliment in the following account, first published in Germany and translated for Science: "It is beyond question that the future development of geology and paleontology will be essentially influenced by America; but it seems to me, that, for zoology also, a model institution for the future, in many respects, has been created in the celebrated Agassiz museum in Cambridge, which probably will not be without influence on the development of museums of natural history in Europe. The genial founder of the 'Museum of comparative zoology...
...faculty of Carthage College have been obliged to resign on account of non-payment of salary. Then the students did a unique thing for college men-hired the faculty to continue teaching them and thus run the college themselves...
...will be immense. Moreover, these young men at New York, of whom several were graduates of Harvard, showed plenty of good sense and did not allow themselves to be carried away by their enthusiasm. This all shows that the objections to young men in politics are of no account. In fact it is only the managers of the "machine" who make any objection. All others ought to be interested to bring this element forward. If a taste and desire to take a proper share in the government is not displayed by men when young they become indifferent and often ashamed...