Word: totality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...establishment of a chair of journalism at Harvard. Each succeeding year witnesses the enlargement of the curriculum by the new courses in modern languages, science and philosophy, but not a step has yet been made to establish a course whose need is greatly felt. The fear either of the total failure, or but partial success, of a course in journalism is what deters the faculty from taking the initiative, and unfortunately there is no precedent at other colleges by which it is easy to judge the benefit of such a course. Lately, however, Cornell has established a chair of journalism...
...large increase in the attendance of students in all departments except the Art School where there is a decrease of eleven. They are distributed as follows: Graduate department, 79; College, 688; Sheffield Scientific School, 308; Art School, 47; Divinity School, 133; Medical School, 35; Law School, 105. Total, 1365. The College has increased 74. The entire University shows a gain of 120 over last year, and 231 over...
...Total, Harvard, 31 points; Technology 24 points. Officers of the race: referee. R. H. Davis, of Harvard; judges, H. M. Waite, and F. C. Jarecki, both of Technology...
When compared with the college proper, the medical school is but poorly provided with scholarships; the entire number is not more than nine, though the total of students is dangerously near 300. Carrying out this proportion, the scholarships in the college should be limited to thirty-six, or the number in the medical school should be-,but of course, this is not to be thought of. The lucky possessors of medical school scholarships for the present year...
...intense heat of the sun. It has been suggested that iron may be a compound of calcium and oxygen, and that these elements may be separated in the sun. So this apparatus will take the light of the very edge of the sun just as the eclipse becomes total, then of the bottom part of the corona, and then of the outer part. If it is found that some of the lines of the spectrum which appear in the photographs of the edge of the sun and the bottom of the corona, are not found in the outer part...