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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University Observatory shows points of advantage over most other university observatories in the country in several instances, according to the article which will appear in the sixth issue of the University Guide next spring. It is stated that Harvard owns the largest university astronomical library in America, and the largest collection by far of glass plates, pictures of the various stars and other objects in the heavens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY LIBRARY CONTAINS 60,000 BOOKS, 350,000 GLASS PLATES | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

Among other large fields showing gains over the previous year, the departments of History and Literature, the Fine Arts and Bio-Chemical Sciences, are outstanding. Fine Arts has risen from the tenth to the sixth largest field in two years. Government, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology and the Romance Languages all show losses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Increase in Honors Candidacy Reported by Faculty Committee | 11/22/1928 | See Source »

...account of the "Dark Ages"--the period of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries, the epoch of the Founders of later mediaeval civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Books | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

Most of the new States begotten by the War were born in Autumn. Wilhelm II abdicated as Kaiser and King in November 1918. The sixth birthday of the Fascist Régime in Italy has just been celebrated (TIME,, Nov. 5). Czechoslovakia was ten years old last week, and the Turkish Republic was five. Today there are eleven red candles on the cake of Soviet Russia. Therefore last week birthdays loomed as potent news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Potent Birthdays | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Erickson, Democrat. Clark's Free Press exulted, last week, when Candidate Rankin spurned the "Aid of a Kept Press as Kiss of Death." Anaconda's Standard headlined: MUNCHAUSEN A PILLAR OF TRUTH COMPARED TO CLARK. Listed in the story were 6 "major, frenzied, malicious Clark lies." The sixth was "the statement made daily by the Clark newspaper that it is devoted solely to the interests of the people of Montana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Anaconda's Troubles | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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