Annual reports of the president and treasurer of Harvard college1879 |
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Σελίδα 123 - The chronograph sheets have been read off, and the means of the times of transit and of the circle readings have been taken for about one-half of the observations of this series. The general constants required for the reductions have also been computed. A work of some magnitude has been undertaken during the past year in the determination of the light of all the stars visible to the naked eye in this latitude. For this purpose a catalogue of about four thousand stars has been formed, arranged in...
Σελίδα 115 - ... prohibitions, which could not be safely allowed if a less conciliatory spirit prevailed. There should be no bar to the use of books, but the rights of others, and it is to the credit of the mass of library users that, when a librarian manifests that single purpose, he can safely be liberal in the discharge of his trust.
Σελίδα 35 - Board itself upon the general subject, proposed the adoption of the following vote : " That, in the opinion of the Board of Overseers, it is expedient that, under suitable restrictions, women be instructed in medicine in the Medical School." This vote was first amended so as to read, " instructed in medicine by Harvard University in its Medical School," and then adopted by a decided majority.
Σελίδα 117 - 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.
Σελίδα 125 - 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 made between...
Σελίδα 99 - ' * y. 00 § g 1 To THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY : — SIR, — I have the honor of submitting the following Report upon the Dental School for the year 1877-78 : — The number of students for the. year was sixteen, of whom five were newly entered and of the first year's class, six were of the second year, and three of the third year. Two students failed to pass the examinations of the previous first year, and were therefore, under the rules, obliged to remain in that class, making the number...
Σελίδα 119 - The comparison is here made with the image of a star thrown out of focus by such an amount that it will appear of the same intrinsic brightness as the nebula. Knowing the stellar magnitude, a simple computation serves to show what must be the magnitude of a star which, when spread over a circle one minute in diameter, would emit the same amount of light as an equal area of the nebula. We may, accordingly, describe the light of the nebulae in stellar magnitudes, thus adopting the same unit and same...
Σελίδα 132 - Dropped by telegraph at 12" 0™ 89 86 ,. „ 12" 5- 7 ,, ,, hand 1 9 Failed to drop 3 5 The success attained in the working of the time-ball at Boston is largely due to the zeal and skill displayed by Mr. Orrin Parker, Sergeant US Signal Service, who has been stationed at Boston, and in charge of the ball since its establishment. He has been efficiently assisted by Messrs. JH Righter and FW Conrad, also of the Signal Service. Arrangements are in progress with the Western Union Telegraph Co., for...
Σελίδα 133 - 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...
Σελίδα 111 - ... confident of us hardly expect that the century will go out without showing a capacity of shelves four or five times what was then contemplated filled to repletion. But the mere accumulation of books is not in itself sufficient: a great library should be a workshop as well as a repository. It should teach the methods of thorough research, and cultivate in readers the habit of seeking the original sources of learning. The usefulness of any library depends largely on the character of its catalogue.