Annual Report of the President of Harvard University to the Overseers on the State of the University for the Academic Year ...University Press, 1875 |
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Page 48 - ... at the end of the year, or at the end of the half-year in studies pursued only during the first half-year.
Page 94 - At a Meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College in Boston, March ША, 1877.
Page 111 - I try never to forget that the prime purpose of a book is to be much read ; though it is equally true that we are under obligations to posterity to preserve books whose loss might be irreparable, and that the passing generation cannot always decide correctly which books are the most precious.
Page 7 - JOSEPH P. OLIVER, to be Clinical Teacher of Diseases of Children, September 27, 1875. SAMUEL S. WEBBER, to be Clinical Teacher of Diseases of the Nervous System, September 27, 1875. JAMES J. PUTNAM, to be Clinical Teacher of Diseases of the Nervous System, September 27, 1875. WILLIAM GRAY, HENRY J. BIGELOW, and THOMAS G. APPLETON, to be Trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for one year, from March 1, 1875, March 18, 1875. The average age of the young men admitted to Harvard College has been...
Page 27 - ... the Library is the centre of the University, and that it would be easier to carry on the University without productive funds than without books and reasonable facilities for their use. The current expenses of the Divinity School for 1875-76 exceeded its receipts by $484.95. The School has had a deficit three years out of the four since the Boston fire in 1872 ; so that its unrestricted fund has been reduced by $5,550.42 between Sept. 1, 1872, and Aug. 31, 1876.
Page 127 - A recourse to legislation to produce uniformity in railroad time is not generally favored, fifty-three per cent of the roads considering that the proposed object can be best accomplished by mutual agreement. For a time to use as the standard, sixty per cent favor Boston (the signals now sent from the Observatory), seventeen per cent New York, and the rest various intermediate standards. The standard now in use is in forty-seven per cent of the cases Boston time; in twenty-three per cent New York...
Page 132 - Any vacancy occurring in the Council is filled in the same manner for the unexpired portion of the term.
Page 26 - A singular notion prevails, especially in the country, that it is the feeble, sickly children who should be sent to school and college, since they are apparently unfit for hard work. The fact that in the history of literature, a few cases can be pointed out in which genius was lodged in a weak or diseased body, is sometimes adduced in support of the strange proposition that physical vigor is not necessary for professional men. But all experience contradicts these notions. To attain success and length...
Page 119 - CATALOGUE WORK, 1872-78. The work of cataloguing pamphlets (except so far as the more important ones of the current accessions, and occasionally some from the back files, are put in covers to be classed as books) is now discontinued, till some systematic grouping of them as prospective books can be devised. There are no considerations except economy for treating pamphlets other than as books; and the users of a library are never thoroughly equipped for investigation as long as any distinction is...
Page 129 - School, the Divinity School, the Law School, the Medical School, the Dental School, the...