Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annals have been distributed as appeared during the previous thirty years of the history of the observatory. The accumulation of unreduced observations has been greatly diminished, and the eight quarto volumes required for the work still unpublished will be mainly occupied with material now almost ready for printing, except that part which relates to recent observations. On the cessation of the present subscription, the observatory must revert to its former restricted condition, unless relieved by fresh assistance. A new subscription toward a permanent fund of $100,000 has recently been set on foot, with good prospects of success. About...
...reported that Commissioner Raum will recommend in his forthcoming annual report the abolition of all internal revenue taxes except those on whiskey and tobacco...
...reason and, in truth, there is no reason - except our own lack of business enterprise - why we should not get the same accommodations from the railroads that other colleges get. All that is necessary, in this matter, as it seems to me, is to lay the question in its proper light before the railroad authorities; and, I think, we shall receive a satisfactory reply. But who is going to submit the question? It might be done by petition, or better, if some member of the faculty would kindly consent to confer with the railroad officials. For the solicitation...
...Lick Observatory, in California, is well under way. It is on Mount Hamilton, thirteen miles from San Jose, and nearly 4,500 feet above sea level, with an unobstructed view of the heavens, except a small part of the northeastern horizon, shut out from view by a neighboring mountain peak. There are to be two domes, in one of which a twelve-inch equatorial telescope is now erected. The other is to contain the great thirty-six-inch telescope, the glasses for which are now being ground at Cambridgeport, Mass. The observatory is of the most substantial character, and will...
...that we were beaten even by their team at foot-ball; but there is soon to be a return match, and we hope to retrieve ourselves. To be sure there is not much glory in defeating a Rutgers team, but it is certainly preferable to being defeated by them, except perhaps, for the fun we of the college press would gather from reading their indiscribable sheet for the next few years, when every number would contain some allusion to "the time we licked Columbia...