Word: urgently
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Except in case of urgent need, the announcement of each meeting shall be posted on the bulletin board, and its object stated, one week in advance...
...those who wish to engage in religious and philanthropic work a large number of opportunities is offered. A library and reading-room for school children is to be established by the Association in a district in East Cambridge where the call for work of this sort is extremely urgent. It is hoped that this library may be made the starting point for the establishment of several boys' clubs and similar enterprises. At the start, however, only about six men will be needed to give two hours a week each to the work. A Chinese Sunday-School in Boston, to which...
...111th meeting of the American Oriental Society held at Philadelphia on April 19, 20, and 21 Professor Lanman read two papers: "Talking birds in ancient India," and "The Urgent need of good text books for the progress of Indian studies." Two papers by Professor Toy, who was not present at the meeting were also read: "The Hebrew fragments of the book Ecclesiastious;" and "On a pre-religious stage of Society...
Professor Edward C. Pickering's recently issued report of the Astronomical Observatory for the year ending September 30, 1899, states that, owing to the continued fall in the rate of interest in recent years, the Observatory is in urgent need of additional endowment. A decrease of one per cent. represents a loss in income of $10,000 a year. Thus in 1892 the Observatory received $53,000 income, but in 1898 only $46,000. In the words of the report: "Every few days questions are solved by means of the photographs, which without them must wait years for an equally...