Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...orders of the class crews have been very unsettled during the past week, and much remains to be accomplished before the races. The prospects of the Freshman crew are the brightest, as they have rowed together for the last month with very few changes...
Next year the University baseball team will open its season with the brightest prospects of any Harvard nine in some years. But two of the regular players will be ineligible, and both these positions should be filled with little difficulty from the available material. This is especially fortunate, as the new one year residence rule will declar all men entering the University for the first time next autumn...
...Born," Praetorius; "Ring out Wild Bells," Hall; "Brightest and Best," Nanscom. Front seats will be reserved for students, and officers of the University and their families until 4.55 o'clock...
...department for the past year. It states that three important astronomical events have occurred since the last report: the opposition of the planet Eros, which brought the planet nearer to the earth than it will be again for many years; the appearance of the New Star in Perseus, the brightest object of its class which has been seen for three hundred years; and the total eclipse of the sun in Sumatra...
...system of observation employed, known as Argelander's method, is essentially as follows. A series of stars of constant brightness is selected, as near as possible to the variable to be observed, in such a way that the brightest is somewhat brighter than the variable at its maximum intensity, and the faintest somewhat fainter than the variable at minimum. Between these extremes the stars differ one from another in brilliance by about half a magnitude, and they are designated by letters in the order of brilliance. This sequence of stars of known magnitude enables the brightness of the variable star...