Publications of the David Dunlap Observatory-University of Toronto, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from Publications of the David Dunlap Observatory-University of Toronto, Vol. 1

HE David Dunlap Observatory, the gift of Mrs. Jessie Donalda Dunlap to the University of Toronto as a memorial to her husband, was formally opened on May 31, The progress of astronomy as a department of the University during the past twenty-five years has been due to the continued efforts of Dr. C. A. Chant to emphasize its importance as a cultural subject in education and as a training for the advanced student. It was a part of his plan, even from a very early date, that the University should have an observatory and contribute to the knowledge of the subject, but it was hardly expected that the money for its erection would be obtained from the provincial grant to the University. In an institution striving to meet the needs of the Province and expanding rapidly, chief emphasis in the field of science is placed on subjects more immediately utilitarian. Not until these had been taken care of would the claims of a pure science like astronomy be considered.

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