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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ever since 1876 women have endeavored to enter Columbia College. In 1880 a provision was made to enable women educated at other places to obtain degrees upon examination by the faculty of Columbia. This concession was not enough, and last winter a movement was started which ended in a petition for an establishment similar to the Annex at Harvard. This petition has been granted by the the trustees of the college. The course of study, and the requirements for admission and for a degree are to be the same as those of the college, but all recitations are to take...
...John Harvey Treat, of the class of '62, of Lawrence, has done an inestimable service, by the presentation of a library of eight hundred volumes, on the Fathers of the Church. Mr. Treat has been engaged ever since his college days in forming this collection; and after spending many years, and much money on the task, he turns it over to Harvard. This library is undoubtedly one of the very best of its kind in existence, and will greatly augment the number of books already contained in the department of ecclesiastical history...
...replaced the teeth and held them in position is best he could with his tongue until the game was finished, and then sought the nearest dentist, who fastened them in with silk cord, The cord has since be end, and. strange to say, the teeth are firm as ever...
...only be obtained by close study and the most patient kind of investigation. Only when years have rolled by can the amount of work done by the professors at the observatory be fully comprehended and appreciated. We feel confident in saying that no other college in this country has ever attempted a work of such magnitude and importance in astronomy as the professors who are about to start south have undertaken. They will be gone two years, devoting much of their time to the study of the condition of the heavens in South America. Such an undertaking certainly deserves...
...report of the Secretary of the Harvard Annex for the ninth year has recently been published, and shows that the institution is on a firmer basis and that its operations are being carried on more satisfactorily than ever before. It contains an urgent appeal for more funds and calls attention to the fact that the general endowment meets the expenses only by the most strict economy. It is absolutely necessary that in the near future more class room be provided and that funds be raised for the purchase of books and laboratory apparatus, of which the institution now stands greatly...