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Página 3 - Overseers, shall have such of the powers and perform such of the duties of the...
Página 162 - When every worldly maxim arrayed itself against him ; when blasted in fortune, and disgrace and danger darkened around his name, she loved him the more ardently for his very sufferings. If, then, his fate could awaken the sympathy even of his foes, what must have been the agony of her whose whole soul was occupied by his image...
Página 197 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same : "That the President and Fellows of Harvard College and their successors in office, be and they are hereby authorized to purchase, accept, take and hold lands, tenements and hereditaments within this...
Página 27 - Fellows $<!000 as a permanent fund the income of which
Página 4 - English Composition. Each candidate will be required to write a short English Composition, correct in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and expression, the subject to be taken from such works of standard authors as shall be announced from time to time.
Página 140 - Bache telescope has been employed. The third research relates to a more careful study of the spectra of the brightest stars. For this work Mrs. Draper has lent the 11-inch photographic lens employed by her husband. She has also furnished an admirable mounting for the instrument and a small observatory to contain it. Two prisms have been constructed to place in front of the object-glass, the large one having a clear aperture of 11 inches square and an angle of nearly 15°, the other being somewhat...
Página 70 - Every student is required to attend all his class exercises and to satisfy the instructor in each of his courses of study, in such way as the instructor may determine, that he is performing the work of the course in a systematic manner.
Página 79 - ... abridgment of the college course, by those who would go from the college to a professional school of the university. The faculty of law concurred in this recommendation. After consideration in committee and extended discussion, the Academic Council, in November, 1887, requested the college faculty to consider the expediency of a reduction of the college course.
Página 154 - ... last year, have been received from the following foreign observers : Mr. TW Backhouse, of Sunderland, England ; Messrs. Joseph Baxendell and Joseph Baxendell, Jr., of Southport, England ; Rev. TE Espin, of Wolsingham, England ; Mr. JE Gore, of Ballysodare, Ireland ; Mr. George Knott, of Cuckfield, England ; Major EE Markwick, of Queenstown, Ireland ; Mr. CE Peek, of Lyme Regis, England; Mr. J. Plassman, of Warendorf, Germany; Professor Safarik, of Prague, Austria. Two large series of earlier...
Página 161 - ... consider what you have to say on the subject selected, and arrange your thoughts in logical order. Aim at quality rather than quantity of work. Carefully revise your composition, correcting all errors in punctuation, spelling, grammar, division by paragraphs, and expression, and making each sentence as clear and forcible as possible. If time permits, make a clean copy of the revised work. I. The Character of Sir Richard Steele. II. The Duke of Marlborough as portrayed by Thackeray. III. The Style...

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