Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot and several professors of Harvard College have petitioned Congress in regard to the naval observatory the petition was presented in the Senate on Friday last by Senator Hoar, and was similar in purport and phrase to several which had preceded it, and which came from the like officers of other principal colleges of the country. These ask that it shall be provided by law that whenever hereafter a superintendent shall be appointed for the United States Naval Observatory at Washington he shall be a professional astronomer of experience, and that the new observatory building, soon to be erected...
...dining hall last year showed how quickly men left after the board exceeded a certain point. To prevent a repetition of last year's danger the directors have thought it unwise to continue the addition of a luxury to the bill of fare and, controlled entirely by a regard for the welfare of the hall, the board almost unanimously voted to exclude coffee...
...body unaccustomed to this sort of work to a continued strain, was in the highest degree injurious, as although our forefathers may have done it with impunity, the physical powers of the student of the present generation do not compare with those of the student of the former. In regard to the best time for exercise, Dr. Sargent said that it depended, to a certain extent, upon the condition and requirements of a person; if, for instance, one was troubled by sleeplessness, the proper time was in the evening, but the hour of the day when the average person...
...some of the colleges to the retention of Amherst in the league is simply that games with her were hardly of enough importance to warrant the time spent in travelling. There is a considerable sentiment at Harvard, however, in favor of Amherst's remaining in the association. In regard to Dartmouth there is more to be said. That college is so far away from all the others which compose the association that at least two days must be spent in travel for every game that is played. Besides this, bad weather may prevent a game, in which case two long...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : With what class does the change in regard to the calculation of the general scale go into the effect...