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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...results obtained are published in a series of Annals, and now fill thirty quarto volumes. The preparation of these volumes occupies a large part of the force at the observatory in Cambridge. Besides this labor, a large amount of observation is done there, several instruments being kept in constant use. The largest of these are the fifteen-inch and six-inch equatorial telescopes, the eight-inch transit circle, the eleven-inch Draper photographic telescope, the eight-inch photographic telescope, and the meridian photometer...
Instruction in astronomy is not given at the observatory, either by lectures or recitations. Facilities are freely offered to astronomers for making use of the library, buildings, grounds, and instruments of the observatory, so far as this can be done without interfering with regular work. Similar opportunities are sometimes offered to special students in astronomy, but the constant employment of the principal instruments greatly limits the use that can be made of them for this purpose...
Besides the three new boats now in use, the furniture of the house has received the addition of some oak chairs of the style...
Besides the three new boats now in use, the furniture of the house has received the addition of some oak chairs of the style...
...usual makes no mention whatever of athletics. In reference to the criticisms advanced by the press that Yale's growth has been external and material rather than intellectual, the president says: "The education is better, wider, larger than it was ten years since, and every man who will use what the university offers will receive for himself the better and larger result. The inner life of the institution is growing as the outer life is growing, and this is the right and healthful growth - the growth of the two together...