Word: news
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next half-year the new board will make every effort to improve the paper. We are very much in earnest in the task which we have before us. It seems clearly defined; it is to give college, and especially Harvard, news quickly and accurately; it is to make our editorial opinion felt throughout the University. To the furtherance of these ends we shall give our heartiest efforts, and we ask, in this, our work, the continued co-operation of the students and instructors...
...News.- From '91: number of men 6; first dispute 1, first colloquy 3, no appointment 2. From '92: number of men 4, high oration 1, first dispute 1, second colloquy 1, no appointment...
...hours of instruction per week in the various colleges are: Harvard 270, Yale 119, Vassar 118, Columbia 110, University of Michigan 104, Cornell 84, Princeton 75, Amherst 72, and Trinity 65.- Yale News...
...members of the expedition to the new Harvard astronomical station, at Arequipa, Peru, arrived at their destination about a week ago and Professor Pickering of the observatory is daily expecting news from them. The latest letters from them were mailed at Panama. Mr, W. H. Pickering, a brother of Professor Pickering, is in charge of the expedition. It is expected that many important discoveries will accrue to science from the work which has just been begun at this mountain city of Peru...
...written us a very kind letter thanking us for the use of our columns throughout the course of lectures which he has just finished. For our part, we were only too glad to be able to be useful to him. It has always been our method to consider Harvard news of first importance, and our columns are always open within reasonable limits to those professors who desire to use them. Professor Royce says that "it is this kind of aid, given to academic enterprises, that makes instructors feel themselves regarded as your fellow-students, and that in every way furthers...