Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thirty pages of the number are devoted to the "Unpublished Letters of Washington," selected and explained by William Henry Smith. Most of the letters printed were written during his service in the French and Italian War, and offers to the reader an interesting account of Colonel Washington's anxieties and dangers in his first battles, Mr. Smith improves the opportunity to criticize Mr. Sparks severely for changing the text of some of these letters in his book called "The Writings of Washington...
...short account of "Washington as an Angler," by George H. Moore, follows. It is made up of extracts from Washington's diary and relates to fishing trips taken in New York and New Hampshire...
...were carried on under the direct personal supervision of Professor Pickering who co-operated with the authorities at the Russian observatory of Pulkova in ascertaining the precise time when certain faint stars were occulted by the moon. These stars, usually invisible when in the neighborhood of the moon, on account of the brilliancy of its light, became visible by reason of the shadow of the earth falling on the moon, the light of which was thereby diminished. So that by determining the time of the occultation of these stars, whose positions are exactly known, the moon's position was ascertained...
Ottawa College is closed on account of the prevalence of typhoid fever among the students...
...subject. The alumni, too, have taken an interest in the matter and have been working to remedy the evils. One of the greatest troubles has been that there were so few desirable societies that some of the best men in the class have to "get left" on account of the limited number of men taken in. This is especially true of the junior societies. Psi U. and D. K. E., which have usually taken in about 40 men, but who have decided to limit the number to 20 in the future. This condition of things...