Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Cornell's athletic teams are in rather an unsettled state at present. Yet never we believe, has there been a spring in the history of the College when there were brighter prospects for fair success in every branch than at present. Although the preparatory period has been unusually prolonged and the final picking of the various teams somewhat delayed, still some idea of their capabilities may be gotten from their work thus...
...athletic outlook at Pennsylvania has never been brighter than at the present time. The candidates for crew, track and baseball have been working industriously for some weeks past and matters are beginning to assume definite form...
...principal work at the station at Arequipa, Peru, has been the obtaining of charts of clusters and of the brighter stars. The work has remained under the direction of Professor Bailey, and Professor Upton, of Brown University, has also spent a large part of the year there...
...Blue Hill Observatory. As a result of observations taken on 152 nights the total number of photometric settings is 100, 052, which is greater than that obtained in any previous year. The observations of all the stars north of 40 degrees, of the magnitude of 7.5 and brighter, are nearly completed. The exploration of the upper air with kites lifting automatic instruments which record atmospheric conditions has been continued. Last September records were brought down from a height of 9,255 feet, which is the greatest altitude ever reached by kites, and later another ascent was made which promised...
...simultaneously is still further increased by substituting for the object glass a portrait lens like that used by photographers, only larger. The field of view is in this way increased from two degrees square to ten degrees square, and a photograph is obtained of the spectra of all the brighter stars in this large region. Many thousand plates, covering the entire sky, have been taken in this way at the 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...