Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Graduate Department contained in 1887-88, 97 students, 17 more than in any previous year; and of these 52 were new comers...
...School has increased in the number of its students 20 per cent. during the last year. The Story professorship was again filled after a vacancy of four years. The Harvard Law Association, also, gave $1100 to increase the amount of instruction in constitutional law during the year...
Several important changes were made in the Medical School during the year. The whole course was revised, and two studies in the third year and the whole of the fourth year were made elective. The medical faculty was increased from 21 to 26, so that there are now 71 doctors in the vicinity of Boston connected with the school...
...Veterinary School is at present non-supporting and needs an endowment for the maintenance of its hospital. There was a deficit on its books last year...
During the past year the Observatory has been very active, and has had particular success in its photometric and photographic work. The President emphasizes the need of a fire-proof building to contain the unpublished records of observations and the library...