Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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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...
...departments or of special seminars, opportunities are offered for systematic work in historical and political science-at Columbia, at the University of Michigan, and at Johns Hopkins University. Harvard has practically no organized graduate department and although her lecture courses in the two departments of history and political economy cover to a considerable extent, the ground covered in direct instruction at the institutions we have named, yet this fact of the absence of regularly organized seminar work and of a school or department for specialized work in these branches, technically would exclude her from our list, as they exclude Yale...
...seminary method is largely used in many of the courses, and in addition there is a Political Science Association divided into five sections (Historical, Economic, Administrative, Pedagogic and Scientific) for voluntary work and the benefits of mutual stimulus and co-operation. The courses in history, 12 in number, cover the ground of (1) The General Institutional History of Europe, (2) The Political and Constitutional History of England, and (3) of the U. S., a including special seminar for the study of Constitutional Questions in English and American History. There is also a special seminar in American Finance and in methods...
Though the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Music are not given, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy is understood to cover them; and there are at this time several men trying for it in music...
...appeared. It is very much the same as the catalogue of last year, there being but few changes; but its outside appearance is a marked improvement over the preceeding one. Without raising the cost it has been found possible to substitute a neater and more durable cover than the old flexible one; and the change in the color is a noticeable improvement. To the artistic eye the color adopted may not, perhaps, be exactly crimson in shade; still it is very much nearer than before and about as near the mark as such attempts usually come. Complimenting the publisher...