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...largest university in the world is in Paris and has over 9,000 students...
...largest telescope is 15 inches in diameter and has a magnifying power of 5,000 times. Besides this there are many smaller ones, which are used whenever the night is sufficiently clear...
...have combined to give Harvard the advantages of both types of university. The success of the experiment the gains of the present year assure beyond doubt, for we have great professional schools deriving the advantages of city environment, and at the same time closely united with one of the largest undergraduate schools of arts in the world, this school or college being surrounded by almost ideal conditions...
...been at work on it for years. It is an everlasting monument to a most generous, broad minded, and pailanthropie man. Mr. Drexel is now a man of about sixty and is at the head of a most successful banking business in Philadelphia. He is one of the largest givers for charity in that city. He has been very much aided in the growth of the institute by Mr. George W. Childs, who with Mr. Drexel and his son compose the board of trustees. A most distinguished assemblage witnessed the dedicatory exercises last week where Mr. Chauncey M. Depew delivered...
There are eight large instruments and several smaller telescopes at the Observatory. The largest telescope is 15 inches in diameter and has a power of magnifying 5000 times. This instrument, the gift of the Hon. David Sears, was the nucleus upon which the Observatory was first started in 1843. The four Gregorian Reflectors of different diameters are used for photographic purposes only. Nearly all the modern instruments and appliances for surveying the heavens are at the Observatory A large part of the time signals of New England is furnished by the time service of the Observatory...