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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...
...play was originally written in 1599 for Henslowe and his company of professional actors of London, and the text was first printed in quarto form in 1605 for Thomas Thorpe. "All Fooles" is a romantic comedy with the characters, which are borrowed from Latin comedy, appearing as types rather than well-rounded individuals. Mr. Swineburne, the English critic, has pronounced "All Fooles" one of the most faultless examples of high comedy in the whole rich field of Elizabethan Drama...
...addition to these expeditions the fund has furnished the means for publishing a series of quarto memoirs, thus making known some of the important results of the several expeditions. The latest of these memoirs has just been issued under the title "Researches in the Central Portion of the Usumatsintla Valley," by Mr. Teobert Maler. This work gives a full and interesting description of Mr. Maler's work for the past year, including his visit to the little-known Lacandon Indians of Lake Petha...