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Harvard was founded in 1636 to train young ministers. Even after the institution ended mandatory chapel attendance in the mid-1880s, Harvard remained strongly Protestant. In response to a growing turnout, the University built a total of four chapels, including Appleton Chapel...
Harvard’s collection of plates is the largest in the world both in terms of length of time covered—the plates record over a century’s worth of sky dating from the 1880s to the 1990s—and in terms of breadth, as the plates provide images of the sky from both the northern and southern hemispheres...
...night at a Pound Hall information session, includes large windows and open spaces—meant to bring light in from outside, DelVecchio said. The Law School campus already boasts several architectural landmarks. H. H. Richardson, a leader of the Romanesque Revival movement, designed Austin Hall in the early 1880s. And Harkness Commons, which opened in 1950, is a creation of Walter Gropius, a pioneer of the Bauhaus School of design, “The Law School has such an eclectic mix of architecture on it,” DelVecchio said. “It’s hard...
...step for a very old technology. A 1st century Greek may have invented the first coin-operated vending machine to sell holy water. The modern precursor of today's machines surfaced in 1880s London, dispensing postcards. Since then, machines have been used to sell everything from, well, soup to nuts. But they've remained fully rooted in the analog world. Enter Crowley's server-based company. It transforms video-game machines to offer 30 different games instead of one, and gives jukeboxes the capacity to deliver 2.2 million songs. Crowley expects the Coke machines could tap into that same tuneful...
...younger brother Irvine served.) The young Theodore had grown up with stories about earlier naval battles and eagerly read works on the history of war. Yet it would be fair to say that his notions about sea power--build bigger warships, concentrate the fleet--were primitive until the late 1880s, when he was introduced to one of the greatest luminaries of naval thought, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan. At the time of their first meeting, Mahan, then in his late 40s, was giving lectures at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., lectures that would culminate in the 1890 publication...