Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...grounds have been improved a great deal and a laboratory for chemistry and physics has been built. There has been no change in the list of studies, excepting in English courses, which vary each year to suit the entrance examinations of Harvard, Yale and other colleges. The new laboratory has necessitated a radical change in the physics and chemistry courses; a good deal of attention is paid to experiments so as to meet the requirements for entrance to Harvard...
...term time. Books may be taken out over night under the usual restrictions. It has been customary to have the library open from 9 to 2 during the short vacations, but in consideration for those who remain the regular hours will be observed. On Christmas day and on New Year's day the building will, of course, be closed...
...Geological Department a course of lectures (once a week, lasting through the college year) was delivered to teachers and others, the attendance averaging about twenty-five in number. The subject of this course was "Geographical Methods and Results...
...physical geography and geology of the United States, and also an historical and statistical resume of the development of the mining interests of the country, which in the reprint now in press will, as far as is possible. be brought down to the end of the current year...
...interest to note in comparison with these statistics that the number of books drawn from the Harvard Gore Hall Library by students is over 60,000 volumes for the year; and the number of reserved books taken out over night for the same time is more than 9000 volumes, about the amount taken out by Yale men from their university library, in the ordinary way, during an entire year...