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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...affording resources for the study of the large collection of astronomical photographs which has been made by the Harvard Observatory within the past few years. An exhaustive study of these photographs, which are estimated by Professor Pickering to exceed 100,000 in number, has heretofore been impossible on account of the lack of funds available for the purpose. Many of the photographs are not to be found outside of the University Observatory and on this account are of especial value. The money is to be used in 1903 and Professor Pickering already has a corps of observers at work...
...Christmas number of the Advocate contains, besides the editorials, five stories and a poem. "A Crime in the Barrens, "by R. W. Child '03, is an interesting piece of description, dressing out a very mediocre plot. "The Twentieth Man," by G. C. Lincoln '05, is an account of club politics in a Southern college. The narrative is well told, although the scenes depicted seem slightly unnatural. "Pardners," by L. W., although only a short sketch, is the best written article in the magazine. It is clearly told and full of local color, "Rattles Romance," by "Burre," and "Number-Stoughton...
...rest of the number maintains an excellent average, "Class Spirit," by R. Derby '03, is a short and true account of the development of a class, written in a straight forward manner with convincing earnestness. Two stories, "Tufa," by L. M. Crosbie '04, and "The Night College House Burned," by S. A. Welldon '04, are both unusually good bits of narrative. The first is a trifle squalid, perhaps, and is a not altogether new idea, but is most skillfully put together, rapid and full of vivid color and incident. The second has a distinct Cambridge atmosphere, is convincing in spite...
...Gymnasium will be closed all day today on account of the University Assembly...
...Bulletin for December 17 comprises six pages of the important University events of the day. President Eliot's address on "New Americans," delivered at the North Bennett Street Industrial School last Sunday evening is printed in full. A detailed account of the sixth annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs, held in Cincinnati, is given, with a complete list of the Harvard men present. Accounts of the French play, with a picture of the cast of the reward of academic distinctions of the musical clubs of the regulation on academic costumes two editorials commenting on President Eliot's address...