Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From the annual report of the Astronomical Observatory which was noticed in Wednesday's CRIMSON, it appears that the collection of astronomical photographs and manuscript records, accumulated by years of patient work, is stored in a wooden building, for the reason that there is no available fire-proof building on the observatory grounds. Though the presence of this collection may be an aid, it is by no means necessary in the work of observation conducted at the observation conducted at the observatory, while the examination of the photographs with reference to the phenomena pictured by them, could be carried...
Competition for the prize is open to members of the third year only. Competitors are requested to limit their essays to fifty pages of manuscript, the usual legal quarto size...
...special investigation on literary subjects, not necessarily very complicated, but interesting to the general body of students. The first paper yesterday was entitled "Some Observations on the language of Chaucer," and was read by Mr. J. M. Manly. The paper described the use of final e in one manuscript only, "The Dream of Fair Women." The changes in words were, in Chaucer's time, much more easily made than now, as there was no dictionary as a standard, and writers often fixed spelling to suit themselves. This of course complicates matters very seriously, and many passages in Chaucer are still...