Word: showings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examinations than any of the other studies, but of the new advanced studies that may be offered in place of the advanced courses in Greek or Latin, in 1888 French was offered by 61 candidates, German by 43, experimental physics by 9, and experimental chemistry by 22. These figures show that the new requirements have already stimulated the preparatory schools to provide means for the teaching of more advanced courses in German and French, and have moved them to take steps towards the introduction of laboratory methods of studying physics and chemistry. The fact that one quarter...
...athletes during the past five years has been 2.68. It will be seen by these figures that the averages of the crew and nine fall below that of the non-athletic men, while those of the football men and track athletes rise above it. Both athlete and non-athletes show a gain in scholarship during the second decade...
...Willistonian is publishing a series of articles on Harvard and Yale. The object of the articles is to show the advantages of a course at either college...
...Agassiz Museum would not exceed $40,000. The reason Professor Cooke had addressed the class was to gain the co-operation of every member in it, in bringing the needs of the University before its friends all over the country, in order that they might be prompted to show a zeal for the welfare of Harvard which would result in hearty financial aid from them...
...same as that of the solar spots, the corona of 1889 strongly resembling those of 1868 and 1878. The most important observations made at the eclipses of the dates just mentioned were obtained by the United States naval observatory. Its photographs and those of the Harvard expedition in January show an appearance of the corona to the east of the sun, much like that of a wedge, its sides extending far out in wavy lines; on the other side of the sun the coroan appears much brighter, and, from its cleft shape, bears a strong resemblance to the tail...