Word: research
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mathematics, Course F, on Elementary Mechanics, has been introduced, and also a course in Special Advanced Study and Research, numbered...
...effecting permanent improvements in the condition of the institution which have long been urgently needed. The remounting of the large telescope, and a new Observatory building, are in view, as well as a rather ambitions plan for the extension of astronomical investigation, which contemplates the support of researches conducted at other places by funds administered at Harvard. During the past year the Observatory has lost the services of Prof. Rogers, for a long series of year an indefatigable worker with the meridian circle. As a memorial to the late Prof. Henry Draper, the study of the photography of stellar spectra...
...give a concert for the benefit of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. It is well known in literary and scientific circles that this school is doing much toward giving American classical scholars a chance to take a position in the world of archaeological and philological research. The fact that Dr. Charles Waldstein has been appointed to the directorship of the school, on condition that a fund of $100,000 is secured, is also well known. It is toward furthering this end that Harvard's musical societies have generously consented to give a concert on Friday, March...
...will of the late Uriah A. Boyden, property, the present value of which exceeds $230,000, was left in trust for the purpose of astronomical research "at such an elevation as to be free, so far as practicable, from the impediments to accurate observations which occur in the observatories now existing, owing to atmospheric influences...
...astronomical department of Harvard possesses world-wide fame, as is well known to all. But still it must be esteemed a great and special compliment to the University that the management of a large bequest, devoted to astronomical research, should be entrusted to the Harvard observatory. Yet it is fitting that this magnificent sum of $230,000, bequeathed by the late Uriah A. Boyden, should be given over by the trustees to the care of the Harvard observatory. For where in this country can be found an astronomical observatory so well equipped in every particular, or scientists of greater ability...