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ASTRONOMY.

Professor Smith.

The primary object of the course is to furnish the student with
such general knowledge of the subject as every well-educated person should
possess. A general treatment of historical and descriptive astronomy
will be given, but the course will be made practical as far as possible,
including simple practical experiments, the study of the construction
and use of the instruments at the Leander McCormick Observatory,
telescopic observation of the heavenly bodies, and an open-air study
of the summer constellations and of the motions of the moon and
planets. Special attention will also be given to the explanation of
everyday astronomical phenomena, questions concerning the seasons,
the calendar, determination of time, eclipses, the motions of the bodies
of the solar system, etc.

Daily, 9:30 to 10:30. Rouss Physical Laboratory, Room 4.

Text-Books.—Young's Elements of Astronomy and either Young's
Uranography or Upton's Star Atlas.