Word: appearances
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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SOLDIERS FIELD, November 13, 1897.- At twelve o'clock the first comers began to appear on the field, and at 1.40 the streets leading from the street railways were crowded with Harvard and Yale enthusiasts. By two o'clock the seats were crowded to their utmost. The Associated Press flag on the south stand gave evidence of a free head wind blowing straight down the field...
...Cambridge and Arequipa stations of this observatory. As a result, numerous remarkable objects have been discovered. One of the latest is the spectrum of a meteor which has thus been photographed for the first time. Since it is impossible to foresee when the bright meteors will appear, or what path they will follow, a photograph will be obtained only when one happens to cross the field of the telescope. A number of trails of meteors have been obtained, both here and else-where, when charts of the stars were photographed, no prism being used. When the prism was in place...
...results obtained show an important resemblance between meteors and stars having bright lines in their spectra, and may aid in determining the conditions of temperature and pressure in these bodies. Since bright meteors sometimes appear during the November meteoric shower a special effort will be made here to obtain photographs of them, both trails and spectra, tonight...
...Owing to lack of space the remaining nominations will not appear until tomorrow's issue...
...Monthly which comes out today is interesting chiefly on account of a short article by Professor Hollis, defending the present system of electing the athletic committee. He says: "How a change in the method of electing the committee would affect this (the election) does not appear. There is no reason to think that a body of students in mass meeting would exercise better judgment than the small body of men who now select the committee. In fact, the weight of argument is all the other way. A mass meeting is very likely...