Word: specials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many directions. Although the curator was not able, owing to the uncertainty of his movement, to carry on the usual researches at the Newport laboratory, still several representatives of the Museum availed themselves of the privileges of the Government Fish Commission station at Wood's Holl. Considerable material for special research was sent to several well-known scholars of zoology, and a few exchanges were effected...
...only special training for citizenship that our colleges can give must be found in these departments of history and economics, and the need of this training becomes more and more evident as our national problems become more intricate and more clearly problems to be solved by students and not by enthusiasts. The value of such training for women becomes more and more evident as their opinion and judgment are now being so rapidly brought to bear upon public questions...
...learn that with each succeeding year the number of men who make use of the college library is growing larger and larger. There are probably few, however, who know that in connection with Gore Hall there are ten subsidiary libraries, established for the benefit and convenience of students taking special courses in college, which are in general use. The duty of cataloguing the new books, and of adding a host of old ones to the authors' lists, is indeed an arduous one, and Mr. Winsor has accomplished a task which will doubtless bring him well-deserved thanks. But still...
...admission cards" by which students have access for investigation at the shelves to special classes of books is steadily increasing. Two hundred and sixty-six students had these "admission cards" and made use of them 7980 times...
...department, Mr. H. C. Badger has gone over the maps of the World, Europe with subdivisions, Russian and Asia Minor, in preparing the titles for printing. He has also made a special grouping of the plans of the property of the University, including those estates which belonged to Harvard at any time...