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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...transfer to it of about 30,000 stellar photographs. Three expeditions have been sent out to the Harvard station in Peru during the past year and two have already returned while the third has begun work successfully. The entire income of the Paine fund, one of the largest gifts ever made to astronomy, is this year for the first time available for the use of the observatory. Notwithstanding this important increase in the resources, the expenses due to additional undertakings have also become greater, so that no new researches can be begun for the present...
...good this year. Next Wednesday Professor Hollis is to lecture. An assistant teacher in book-keeping is much needed. Any one who is willing to teach this will please send his name or see J. K. Whittmore, 27 Holyoke street. The class in book-keeping is one of the largest and most interesting classes. It meets once a week, on Saturday evenings...
Columbia College now has 600 graduate students, the largest number in attendance at any American college...
...last day will be devoted to general business. The association now numbers six hundred, and it is expected that the April meeting will be the largest ever held...
...Graduate School the largest departments far two years past have been History and Political Science, Natural History and English and Modern Languages. The great majority of students in this school are intending to be teachers or scholars, and the applications of knowledge have for them lent a secondary interest. It is interesting to note that the Graduate School is larger than Harvard College was fifty years...