Word: ten
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...threatens to continue to grow, at the rate of more than 6,000 volumes a year. An immediate enlargement of the building is imperatively demanded; and in planning that enlargement it seems to be necessary to took forward to a Law Library of more than 100,000 volumes within ten years. Financially, the School is able to provide both the building and the books; but it would be really for midable to imagine the future size and costliness of this department of the University, if it were reasonable to suppose that its recent rate of increase would be maintained...
...Pistol Club is making arrangements for a series of inter-class and outside shoots which will begin just after the mid-years. On February 15 there will be a match with Light Battery A of Boston in which the contestants will use both Smith and Wesson and Colt revolvers, ten shots at a time...
...fire-proof photographic library. During the last year 12,000 pictures were taken in this way, and the library now contains nearly 100,000 phot graphs, many of which contain impressions of nearly 500,000 different stars. These pictures furnish a complete map of the sky for the past ten years. By means of these photographs the actions of a single planet can be traced to a period previous even to its discovery...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology has recently secured the celebrated collection of mamma's made during the past ten years by Mr. Outram Bangs, and his brother, Mr. E. A. Fangs. The importance of the acquisition is increased by the fact that the working collection of mammals previously owned by the museum was not large, and the specimens, though often of considerable scientific value, were in many cases poorly prepared. Furthermore, all were prepared according to antiquated methods, and were lacking in accurate data...
...collection comprises some ten thousand skins, mostly of Eastern North American specimens, and includes about a hundred type specimens. The skulls of the animals are kept in separate cases, and are numbered to correspond with the respective skins-a method not adopted in the preparation of the original collection, where the skulls are not removed and consequently are not readily studied. Every specimen is accompanied by a label, with full data, including measurements made from the living animal...