Word: specials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Within the past two or three years several expeditions have been sent from Harvard to various parts of the continent with the purpose of making a special study of one or more of the heavenly bodies. Of all these expeditions none have been more signally successful than the expedition sent to California in December of last year to make observations of the sun's eclipse which occurred on January 1. The party was under the charge of Professor William H. Pickering, and to him must be given much of the praise which is due the remarkable success attending the efforts...
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...regret to announce the sudden death of John William Hovey, special '90, last Sunday, at his home in Sutton, Mass. The deceased was supposed to be suffering simply from a slight cold at the time of his death. He was a graduate of Worcester Academy...
...feet and has six floors; the book-capacity is a good deal smaller than that of the west stack-it is one hundred and fifty thousand volumes-owing to encroachments by the reading room. Both stacks have a large number of large bay windows, furnishing excellent reading alcoves for special study. The general reading-room is one hundred and twenty-six feet by sixty-six; it has desk-room for two hundred and thirty-two readers and a window area of one thousand and twenty-five square feet to a floor area of six thousand six hundred and twelve square...
JUST arrived from the manufacturers, a special good line of Jerseys, to sell for 95 cents each...