Word: urgently
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...records, is difficult to find, when at slight expense, though possibly with some trouble, the collection could be temporarily shifted to some fire-proof structure where, even though inconvenient for reference, it would at least be safe. The need of the observatory of funds to erect suitable buildings is urgent, but the probability of obtaining such bequests would not be lessened, while the probability of having something to put in the prospective structures would be greatly increased, by the precaution which we propose...
...astronomical observatory submitted its annual report to the visiting committee on Jan. 10. An urgent request is made for a fire proof building for the records of observations, valuable instruments and especially the collection of about 27.000 glass photographic plates representing the stars and spectra of both the northern and southern heavens, the results of observations in Peru. California and Cambridge. These are now stored in a frame building, the only one available where they could be destroyed by fire in a few minutes. Besides the plates there is a large collection of manuscripts which if once destroyed could never...
...urgent need has long been felt in college for some sort of course on the study of the Bible from the layman's point of view. This need the college authorities have tried to meet in the course of lectures on Bible study which begins tonight. In the twelve lectures offered the best known instructors in the various departments will speak of the Bible from their several standpoints A more interesting method of treating the subject could hardly be devised, and the instructors and students who have arranged this course should receive the active support of every man in college...
Professor Torrey is very seriously ill at his home, No. 20 Oxford Street. An urgent request is made that there be no unnecessary noise or disturbance on Saturday or any other day in passing through the street...
...project of starting a Harvard fund for the benefit of the Delphi excavations is highly commendable, and ought to appeal to every college man. The society which has negotiated for the privilege of excavating is in urgent need of funds to complete its purchase. If the requisite amount is not collected by June 1, the whole plan must be abandoned, and the valuable results of excavating will be lost to America...