Word: plea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...recent circular issued by the Astronomical Observatory makes a plea for co-operation in observing variable stars. The number of variable stars of long period is now so great that the observation of many of them has been neglected. Although the investigation of the curves which represent the variation in the light of variables of small range can be more efficiently conducted by precise photometric observation, valuable work can be done on the long period stars by persons without extensive apparatus and experience...
...annual report of the Peabody Museum presented by the Curator, Professor F. W. Putnam, has just been made public. Professor Putnam prefaces his report with a plea for aid in the completion of the Museum building. When the new south corner of the University Museum is finished there will remain only one hundred feet of the south wing to be built in order to complete the structure as planned by Agassiz forty years ago. This space, originally allotted for the extension of the anthropological section, is already much needed. The material of the collections, gathered during thirty-four years...
Some of the other articles will be good reading to those specially in-in the subjects, but none are of an exceptional nature or of general importance. The most significant is "An Opportunity," by W. G. Brown '91, a very readable plea for a higher form of teaching, to be provided by the future occupant of the recently founded Dorman B. Eaton Professorship of Government. The writer points out that the terms of Mr. Eaton's bequest provide not merely for a new chair, but for a new sort of chair. The broader, less academic, more human teaching that...
...about Mt. Auburn street, in spite of the coming Elevated Road, and of the fact that the "official University buildings must be planted more and more to the north of Kirkland street." The new University buildings are held back, he says, by the high price of building materials. A plea is made for a new library building. "The magnificent collection of books in the Library is not only the fourth in number of volumes in the United States, but the first in the judicious choice of books, in catalogues, in circulation, and in the tradition of generous use. Such...