The Harvard correspondent of the Boston Traveller hits upon a very suggestive theme: "It is doubtful," he says, "if one Harvard student in forty could give a clear statement of the value to astronomers of the observations made on Wednesday last. Towards the end of the year the senior class are invited to visit the observatory and inspect it, and they are then given a look at the moon. With this valuable amount of astronomical knowledge is the Harvard student thrown upon the world. Many high school scholars know more of astronomy than an average Harvard graduate. The university would do well to give its students a little more of the good which might be obtained from its department known as the Astronomical Observatory."
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