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...James Lee Mitchell delivered disquisitions. The degrees were then conferred upon the graduates in the various departments of the university and finally the exercises closed with the conferring of honorary degrees upon the following distinguished gentlemen: L. L. D. to James Russell Lowell, Prof. F. J. Child, Prof. Simon Newcomb of Washington, and Prof. R. C. Jebb of Glasgow, Scotland; D. D. to J. Henry Thayer of Cambridge, and John F. Moors of Greenfield; and A. M. to william Green Binney...
...reviews a paper lately published in the memoirs of the American academy by Prof. W. A. Rogers of Cambridge, upon the "Harvard College Observatory Catalogue of Stars for 1875." The article by Prof. Rogers is a comparison of the catalogue with the fundamental systems of Anwers, Safford, Boss and Newcomb. This comparison, according to Mr. Downing, shows the excellence of the Harvard College Observatory star places, and goes far to justify the great relative weight which is assigned to them by American and German astronomers when combining them with places of stars determined at other observatories. The fundamental systems referred...
...liabilities of the Newcomb-Buchannan Company of Louisville are about...
...Hall, who will lecture on "Pedagogy." The only other college course of any importance on this subject is that of Prof. Payne at Ann Arbor; and he has been very successful in preparing his pupils for higher grade positions. The courses of such men as Pres. Walker and Prof. Newcomb (of last year) cannot but be of the highest value. The single lecture of Prof. Bryce before the students, while he was here in Boston, was certainly highly appreciated by his hearers; and the course of the Natural History Society last term was of interest to all and of great...
...professor in Mrs. Burnett's novel, "Through One Administration," is said to be a picture of Prof. Simon Newcomb of the National Observatory...