Word: quarto
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings" is the title of the first Fogg Art Museum Catalogue ever issued, which goes on sale Wednesday morning. The volume, which contains upwards of 400 pages of reading matter and heliotype illustrations, to the number of 66, is quarto size, sumptuously bound in heavy board with a rich cloth back, and consists chiefly of a careful index of the primitive and Renaissance paintings dating before 1700, which may be seen at the Museum. The book, which is a publication of the Harvard University Press, will be available at the Co-operative Society and other bookstores...
Every essay offered for the prize must be legibly written or typewritten upon quarto size paper which can be bound. The title page must bear an assumed name and the writer must turn in a sealed letter containing his real name inside and the assumed name on the outside...
Every essay offered should be neatly and legibly written or typewritten upon letter paper of good quality, of the quarto size, with a margin not less than one inch at the top, at the bottom, and on each side, so that it may be bound up without injury to the writing. The title page of each manuscript should bear an assumed name, and the writer should give in with his manuscript a sealed envelope containing his real name and superscribed with his assumed name...
...teaching is done at the Observatory, all the time of the staff there is spent in research work which is recorded in the seventy-five quarto volumes published by the institution. It is part of a great international plan for the purpose of studying the heavens and all of its work has not so much local as international significance. A society representing all the leading nations divided the sky into about twenty zones for the purpose of thorough observation and two of these zones were taken by the Harvard Observatory...
...positions of the stars in these two zones, Professor Rogers and Professor Searle spent more than twenty years in the work. Each was assisted by three of four computers. The results of the observations and computations in regard to the position of the stars fill about twelve quarto volumes. The motions of these same bodies were also carefully studied and the records of this study fill two more volumes...